Harvard Art Museums > 1981.120: The Yellow Ear Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Yellow Ear (Alexander Calder) , 1981.120,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 08, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/309255. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1981.120 People Alexander Calder, American (Philadelphia, PA 1898 - 1976 New York, NY) Title The Yellow Ear Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1946 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/309255 Physical Descriptions Medium Watercolor and brown and black ink on off-white wove paper Dimensions actual: 66.3 x 100 cm (26 1/8 x 39 3/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: black ink, l.r.: Calder Paris 1946 gallery label: removed from verso? now in curatorial file, paper, black and blue inks, printed and handwritten: [printed in black ink:] Perls Galleries / 1016 Madison Ave., New York 21, N.Y. / No. [handwritten in blue:] 8430; [printed in black:] Artist: [handwritten in blue:] Calder / The Yellow Ear / (1946) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Perls Galleries, New York New York], sold; to Richard H. Solomon, New York, New York, 1961, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1981. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard H. Solomon Copyright © Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 1981 Object Number 1981.120 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 308, p. 264, repr. in b/w Modern Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), cat. no. 58, repr. (color) Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 54 on p. 123 Exhibition History Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000 American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
