Harvard Art Museums > 2008.330.44: The Table and a Chair #30 Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Table and a Chair #30 (Richard Tuttle) , 2008.330.44,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/328460. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2008.330.44 People Richard Tuttle, American (Rahway, NJ born 1941) Title The Table and a Chair #30 Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1990 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/328460 Physical Descriptions Medium Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on white wove paper Dimensions 35.5 × 50.6 cm (14 × 19 15/16 in.) mat: 36.8 × 52.1 cm (14 1/2 × 20 1/2 in.) frame: 39.7 × 54.8 × 3 cm (15 5/8 × 21 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: verso: [top, blue ball-point ink:] TOP / 30; [top right, graphite, with arrow:] Title; [top right, black ball-point ink:] "The Table and a Chair" #30 1990-91 [1990-91 crossed out and 1990 added in graphite]; [right, black ball-point ink:] THIS DRAWING MUST / BE FRAMED LIKED THIS: [diagram] / frame can be any profile / as long as inside lip is (real) gold leaf / I am giving this to the Vogels this day / (Jan 27, 1993) to hope somehow, someday / this last-of-the-group drawing will be / framed as requested / Richard Tuttle; [left, graphite:] This becomes an artwork / once it is framed according / to instructions. R.T. inscription: verso, graphite, lower right: 84741 inscription: verso, bottom, graphite, upside down: 30 [with arrow; crossed out in blue ball-point ink] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Richard Tuttle, gift; to Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, January 27, 1993, gift; to the Harvard Art Museum, 2008. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services Copyright © Richard Tuttle Accession Year 2008 Object Number 2008.330.44 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Timothy Standring, [Review] "American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light", The Burlington Magazine (August 2023), 165, pp. 908-911, p. 910 Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 149, 162, repr. as pl. 77 on p. 149 Exhibition History The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/23/2015 - 08/09/2015 American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
