1991.4: Ebon
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.4
- People
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John Bernard Flannagan, American (Fargo, ND 1895 - 1942 New York, NY)
- Title
- Ebon
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 1926
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/226965
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ebony wood
- Dimensions
- 89.2 cm (35 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, 1930(?), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.4
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), pp. 8, 12, fig. 12, cat. 82
- Ilene Susan Fort, The Figure in American Sculpture, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art and University of Washington Press (Los Angeles, 1995), pp. 116-117, reproduced in b/w fig. 129, p. 116
- Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 30, fig. 115, p. 312, 313
Exhibition History
- 20th Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 04/16/1947 - 05/18/1947
- American and British Figurative Art of the Inter-War Years, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/13/1992 - 12/31/1992
- American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994
- The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001
- Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
Verification Level
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