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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.153
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Study for "Tahstvaat"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1946
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309074

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, red-brown watercolor, and graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 63.4 x 49.8 cm (24 15/16 x 19 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, center rt: David Smith 1946; center left: DS 1946
  • watermark: ACQ[ ]LL CANSON
  • inscription: in image, black ink, in artist's hand: Cas [sic?] iron; [fab?] planes; monotone / for red rust & grease; fab cast I / or [BE?]; Cas [sic?] iron; small cube base
  • inscription: verso, l.l., blue ink: [encircled:] 1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 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
1974.153
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jeanne L. Wasserman, Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), no. 35
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 237, p. 349

Exhibition History

  • Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/07/1971 - 06/07/1971
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

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