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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.158
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1959
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309034

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Purple and black ink on off-white wove paper (surface losses and adhered paper residues occurred in artist's studio)
Dimensions
actual: 32.6 x 33.9 cm (12 13/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: blue ballpoint pen, l.l.: [delta sigma, for D. S.]
  • inscription: verso, l.l., black ballpoint pen: 2839B
  • inscription: Sept 1 1959, l.l., blue ballpoint pen, in artist's hand: for LO 1959-9-1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David Smith, Bolton Landing, New York; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1974.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Copyright
© The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Accession Year
1974
Object Number
1974.158
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 256, p. 358
  • Richard Mulholland, "Of Dreams and Visions and Things Not Known: Looking at David Smith's Drawing Media" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2003), Unpublished, pp. 1-43 passim

Verification Level

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