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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.260
People
Max Beckmann, German (Leipzig, Germany 1884 - 1950 New York, N.Y., USA)
Title
Meeting of the Forest Owners
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1945
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312197

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and graphite on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
22.8 x 50 cm (9 x 19 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: No. [9]71
  • inscription: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, blue ink: coll: Lois Orswell / Pomfret Center-- Conn--

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1946, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.260
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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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. 6, fig. 104, pp. 48, 306, 371, 373, 380

Exhibition History

  • 20th Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 04/16/1947 - 05/18/1947
  • 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/07/1981 - 11/11/1981
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

Verification Level

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