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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.73
People
Susan Schwalb, American (New York, NY born 1944)
Title
Processional
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1988
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193624

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Metalpoint and gold leaf on white paperboard prepared with white acrylic gesso
Dimensions
sight: 72.8 x 57.7 cm (28 11/16 x 22 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., graphite: Susan Schwalb 1988
  • exhibition label: backing board, u.l.: Entourage: Exhibitions #4/
    8210 Jenkintown Road/
    Elkins Park/
    PA 19117/

    Susan Schwalb/
    Processional [underlined], 1988/
    Silverpoint with Gold leaf o[n]/
    coats of acrylic gess[o]/
    29 x 33/
    Courtesy of Andrea Marquit
  • label: backing board, l.r., in artist's hand: Artist's business card with the following written in black ink:
    "PROCESSIONAL" 1988/
    Silverpoint, gold leaf 29" x 33"
    $2,000

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Susan Schwalb, Watertown, Massachusetts, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Susan Schwalb
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.73
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
From notes by Susan Schwalb:
Drawing is on arches hot press watercolor paper.
Ground is acrylic gesso.

Publication History

  • Charles Schmidt and Townsend Wolfe, Silverpoint Etcetera: Contemporary American Metalpoint Drawings, exh. cat., Entourage: Exhibitions (Elkins Park, PA, 1992)

Exhibition History

  • Silverpoint Etcetera: Contemporary American Metalpoint Drawings, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 08/27/1992 - 10/11/1992; Hunstville Museum of Art, Hunstville, 01/24/1993 - 04/04/1993; William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, 08/29/1993 - 10/24/1993

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