Study for a Mantelpiece Decoration

Gaston Lachaise, French, 1882 - 1935

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about 1920s

Ink and graphite on tracing paper

Overall: 16 3/4 × 21 in. (42.5 × 53.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Wallace K. Harrison, Class of 1950H

D.966.7.2

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower right: For Rockerfeller apt/Job 909; inscribed, on mat, lower left to lower right: Harrison up 12 1/2x 19 1/2R 19 1/2 x 25 1/2

Exhibition History

Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 16-April 28, 1985.

The Nude: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20-June 7, 1984.

Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 30-September 21, 1975.

Publication History

Jacquelyn Bass, Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1985, p.13, no.3.

Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, pp. 45-46.

Provenance

Collected by Ellen Hunt Milton Harrison (1903-1995) and Wallace K. Harrison (1895-198); given to present collection, 1966.

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