1973.85: Ruby Pirouette

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1973.85

People

Margaret Fisher, American (Chicago IL 1898-1990 Winnetka IL)

Title

Ruby Pirouette

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

20th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308963

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache, gray wash, and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 35.1 x 27.2 cm (13 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.l.: MF
• label: inside mat, paper, typewritten: 8. RUBY PIROUETTE / Pencil and gouache / Lent by the Fogg Art Museum
• label: inside mat, l.r., red-and-white paper, typed: RUBY PIROUETTE
• label: inside mat, paper, printed: 12 [circular label]
• inscription: inside mat, graphite: slide / & / [ ]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Margaret Fisher, Illinois, gift; to Roger Fisher, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1973.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Fisher

Accession Year

1973

Object Number

1973.85

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Margaret Fisher: Drawings, Watercolors, Gouaches, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), repr. fig. 8

Exhibition History

• Margaret Fisher: Drawings, Watercolors, Gouaches, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/19/1973 - 10/11/1973
• Margaret Fisher: Drawings and Watercolors, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 09/24/1975 - 11/02/1975

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