Mafiaoso | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1990.38
People: Alfred Leslie, American (Bronx, New York born 1927 Brooklyn, New York)
Title: Mafiaoso
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1958
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/309850

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Collage on cardboard with various kinds of paper (modern laid, wove, etc.), glue, paint (watercolor, oil, tempera) and dirt

Technique

Collage

Dimensions

actual: 75 x 59.2 cm (29 1/2 x 23 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: graphite, l.l.: Alfred Leslie 1958

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [John Bernard Myers, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1959, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1990.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year: 1990
Object Number: 1990.38
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. 145, p. 378

Exhibition History

Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

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1990.38: Mafiaoso