Eat/Death | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1973.93
People: Bruce Nauman, American (Fort Wayne, IN born 1941)
Title: Eat/Death
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1972
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/308975

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite and pastel on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 30.6 x 45.8 cm (12 1/16 x 18 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: graphite, l.r.: B. Nauman 72
inscription: verso, graphite: 12046 B / D 94
gallery label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: no. D-94

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Castelli Graphics, New York, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1973.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund
Copyright: © Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year: 1973
Object Number: 1973.93
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Brenda Richardson, Bruce Nauman: Neons, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1982), under no. 12, repr. p. 64

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

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1973.93: Eat/Death