1946.21.5: Jorn; Illustration for "Salamina" by Rockwell Kent
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1946.21.5
- People
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Rockwell Kent, American (Tarrytown Heights NY 1882 - 1971 Plattsburgh NY)
- Title
- Jorn; Illustration for "Salamina" by Rockwell Kent
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1935
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308145
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink and black crayon over graphite on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
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image: 20.1 x 14.2 cm (7 15/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
actual: 29.7 x 21.4 cm (11 11/16 x 8 7/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: paper taped to bottom mat, black ink, in artist's hand: This is Jorn-- dressed in the / pants of a white whale or a / Greenland Colony Manager.
- inscription: l.l. of bottom mat, graphite: 5 [encircled]
- inscription: l.l. of bottom mat, graphite: 5 7/8 -- 8 3/8
- watermark: [Design of hammer and anvil]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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James Naumberg Rosenberg, New York, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1946.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James N. Rosenberg
- Accession Year
- 1946
- Object Number
- 1946.21.5
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Rockwell Kent, Salamina, Harcourt, Brace and Co. (New York, NY, 1935), reproduced facing p. 72
Verification Level
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