1997.117: Untitled (Abstraction)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1997.117
- People
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William Baziotes, American (Pittsburgh, PA 1912 - 1963 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled (Abstraction)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1944
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/264855
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gouache on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 22.9 x 30.4 cm (9 x 11 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.r.: Baziotes
- inscription: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, black ink: William Baziotes / x: Peggy Guggenheim / Coll: Lois Orswell / Pomfret Center / Conn--
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[The Art of This Century, New York, New York], sold to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1944, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.
NOTE: The Art of This Century Gallery was owned by Peggy Guggenheim.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
- Accession Year
- 1997
- Object Number
- 1997.117
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1997-98 (Cambridge, MA, 1999), p. 23, repr.
- Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 4, fig. 30 (color), pp. 67, 81, 175, 306, 371, 373, 380
- David Bindman, Suzanne Blier, and Vera Grant, ed., Art of Jazz: Form, Performance, Notes, exh. cat., Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 62, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
- Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
- Art of Jazz: Form, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016
Verification Level
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