Harvard Art Museums > 1990.47: Sketchbook: Swimming 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"Sketchbook: Swimming (Irwin Touster) , 1990.47,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 27, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/309920. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1990.47 People Irwin Touster, American (New York NY born 1921) Title Sketchbook: Swimming Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook Date 20th century Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/309920 Physical Descriptions Medium Graphite and wash on two sheets of accordian-folded laminated Japanese paper, bound in a book Dimensions closed: 15.9 × 10.3 × 3.2 cm (6 1/4 × 4 1/16 × 1 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: black fiber-tipped pen, first page: I. Touster; graphite: I. Touster inscription: first page, black fiber-tipped ink and graphite, in artist's hand: [ink:] For L.O. / 1/3/63 / I. Touster / [graphite:] Swimmers-- / I. Touster stamp: back pastedown, blue ink: MEDE [sic] IN / JAPAN Provenance Recorded Ownership History Irwin Touster; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1963, 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 1990.47 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. Descriptions Description Book has 21 pages, with 20 drawings. Drawings made on one side of the paper only, made to be unfolded and viewed as one image in a strip. 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. 282, p. 359 Exhibition History Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003 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
