Rio de Janiero | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2011.55
People: Justin McCarthy, American (Weatherly, PA 1891-1977 Weatherly, PA)
Title: Rio de Janiero
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1960s
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/337441

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache and black ink on brown wove paper

Dimensions

53.9 × 69.3 cm (21 1/4 × 27 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: Removed from verso: Millbrook Gallery & Frameworks, LTD. See object file for original label.
label: Removed from verso: Museum of American Folk Art; Self-Taught Artists of the Twentieth Century An American Anthology March 5, 1998 to August 15, 1999.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Sterling Strauser, Stroudsberg, PA, sold; to Didi and David Barrett, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2011.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Collection of Didi & David Barrett ‘71
Accession Year: 2011
Object Number: 2011.55
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Elsa Longhauser and Harald Szeemann, Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century, exh. cat., Museum of American Folk Art and Chronicle Books (San Francisco, 1998), p. 88, ill. p. 228

Exhibition History

Self-Taught Artists of the Twentieth Century: An American Anthology, Museum of American Folk Art

Verification Level

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2011.55: Rio de Janiero