1946.21.12: Modest Old Girl; Illustration for "Salamina" by Rockwell Kent
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1946.21.12
- People
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Rockwell Kent, American (Tarrytown Heights NY 1882 - 1971 Plattsburgh NY)
- Title
- Modest Old Girl; Illustration for "Salamina" by Rockwell Kent
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1935
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308174
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink, black crayon, and white gouache on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
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image: 18.4 x 13.3 cm (7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.)
actual: 29.3 x 21.6 cm (11 9/16 x 8 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: paper taped to bottom mat, black ink, in artist's hand: This is an old girl promenading. / If she didn't hold on to her pants / they'd come off. Modest old girl.
- inscription: bottom mat, graphite: 14 [encircled]
- 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
- 1946.21.12
- 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. 228
Verification Level
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