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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2010.542
People
May Stevens, American (Quincy, Massachusetts 1924 - 2019 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Title
Big Daddy Paper Doll
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1970
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York, New York City
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/336954

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Screenprint on off-white wove paper
Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
73.7 x 108.6 cm (29 x 42 3/4 in.)
frame: 84.1 x 116.8 x 5.1 cm (33 1/8 x 46 x 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. in pencil: May Stevens
  • inscription: l.l in pencil: a/p
  • inscription: On verso in pencil:: a/p 5

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
May Stevens created 1970; [Mary Ryan Gallery, New York], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Courtesy of the Artist and Mary Ryan Gallery, NY
Accession Year
2010
Object Number
2010.542
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Patricia Hills, May Stevens, Pomegranate (San Francisco, 2005), pp. 33-34
  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 290-291, cat. 81, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

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