2003.56: Untitled
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2003.56
- People
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Alfonso Ossorio, American (Manila, The Philippines 1916 - 1990 East Hampton, NY)
- Title
- Untitled
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1951-1952
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/93490
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor, black ink, and wax on white wove paper
- Technique
- Wax resist
- Dimensions
- 38 x 28 cm (14 15/16 x 11 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso: upper right, black ballpoint ink, inscribed, in artist's hand: FOR ERIC / with all best / Alfonso Ossorio: East Hampton / 1.VIII.58
- inscription: verso, graphite, inscribed: 7299 / Ossoroio [sic]
- watermark: upper right: RUSSELL FLINT HANDM (ADE) part cut off
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Alfonso Ossorio, East Hampton, New York, gift to Frederic Ossorio, 1958, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Frederic and Siena Ossorio
- Copyright
- © Robert U. Ossorio Foundation
- Accession Year
- 2003
- Object Number
- 2003.56
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Scott Homolka, "Horror Vacui and the Process of Expression: A Technical Explanation of Drawings by Alfonso Ossorio" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2004), Unpublished, pp. 1-19 passim
- Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 61, 127, repr. as fig. 2 on p. 61 [detail], pl. 58 on p. 127
- Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 2, Page 61
Exhibition History
- Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/2009 - 01/10/2010
- American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023
Verification Level
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