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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1973.92
People
Dorothea Rockburne, American (Verdun, Québec 1932 -)
Title
Drawing Which Makes Itself
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1973
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308965

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, graphite and cut and folded paper on white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 76.5 x 102 cm (30 1/8 x 40 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Rockburne 73
  • blind stamp: STRATHMORE / [design of thistle] / USE EITHER SIDE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Bykert Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1973.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund
Copyright
© Dorothea Rockburne / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1973
Object Number
1973.92
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Descriptions

Description
Pinholes at upper corners.

Publication History

  • Cornelia H. Butler, Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA, 1999), p. 144

Exhibition History

  • New American Graphic Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/12/1973 - 10/28/1973
  • Collecting for Harvard: Works Acquired through the Generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/03/1993 - 08/15/1993
  • Afterimage: Drawing through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 03/07/1999 - 06/20/1999

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