A black and white photograph of two abstract figures.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The black and white photograph shows a square within a square. The larger square has a dark background in the upper half that gradually fades to a lighter gray in the bottom half. The color pattern is duplicated in the smaller square which has white edge at the top. Within the smaller square are two figures. The figure on the left has a broad triangular top which extends down to a narrow passage before flaring out and forming to lines with a gray veined area between the lines. The smaller figure has a bird-shaped profile facing left, there is a white line which extends down to the right and broadens into a triangle at the bottom.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1981.14.5
People
Henry Holmes Smith, American (Bloomington, Ill., USA 1909 - 1986 San Rafael, Calif., USA)
Title
Growing Up I
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Portfolio II (1972)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1952, printed later?
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/281035

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 30.2 x 22.8 cm (11 7/8 x 9 in.)
mount: 50.7 x 40.7 cm (19 15/16 x 16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Henry Holmes Smith
  • inscription: recto of the mount, lower left, graphite, in artist's hand: Growing Up I 1952
  • inscription: recto of the mount, lower right, graphite, in artist's hand: Henry Holmes Smith

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Russel Anderson, Carmel, California, from the artist?, gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1981.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Russ Anderson
Copyright
© Smith Family Trust
Accession Year
1981
Object Number
P1981.14.5
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/04/2018 - 04/09/2019

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