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Artist/Maker
Dorothy Shakespear
(British, 1886 – 1973)
Date1915-20
MediumWatercolor and graphite on paper
DimensionsComposition: 5 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (14 × 21 cm)
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 1/2 in. (17.1 × 24.1 cm)
Frame: 15 1/4 × 19 1/8 × 1 5/8 in. (38.7 × 48.6 × 4.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number1994.100
Not on view
Collections
Additional Details
Alternate Titles
Abstract Composition
Exhibition History
2016
New York, NY (Japan Society). "Chain of Noh: Twilight Project by Simon Starling," October 7, 2016 - January 15, 2017;
2010 - 2011
Durham, North Carolina. Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University. "Vorticism in London and New York, 1914-1918," September 30, 2010 - January 2, 2011.
Traveled to:
Venice, Italy. Peggy Guggenheim Collection. "The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918," January 29 - May 15, 2011.
London, Englad. Tate Britan. "The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World," June 14 - September 4, 2011. (cat. no. 39).
1996
Hannover, Germany (Sprengel Museum). "Blast! Vorticism - The First Avant Garde in England 1914-1918," August 18 - November 3, 1996, (no cat.).
New York, NY (Japan Society). "Chain of Noh: Twilight Project by Simon Starling," October 7, 2016 - January 15, 2017;
2010 - 2011
Durham, North Carolina. Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University. "Vorticism in London and New York, 1914-1918," September 30, 2010 - January 2, 2011.
Traveled to:
Venice, Italy. Peggy Guggenheim Collection. "The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918," January 29 - May 15, 2011.
London, Englad. Tate Britan. "The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World," June 14 - September 4, 2011. (cat. no. 39).
1996
Hannover, Germany (Sprengel Museum). "Blast! Vorticism - The First Avant Garde in England 1914-1918," August 18 - November 3, 1996, (no cat.).
Provenance
1994: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound;
c. 1973 - 1994: Omar S. Pound, by inheritance from his mother, Dorothy Shakespear.
c. 1973 - 1994: Omar S. Pound, by inheritance from his mother, Dorothy Shakespear.
Published References
Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, "Acquisitions 1994," FRIENDS OF ART NEWSLETTER (August 1995);
Mark Antliff and Vivien Greene, eds., THE VORTICISTS exh. cat. (London: Tate Publishing, 2010), p. 136, illus., 39.
Mark Antliff and Vivien Greene, eds., THE VORTICISTS exh. cat. (London: Tate Publishing, 2010), p. 136, illus., 39.
Inscribed
"3 [encircled]" on verso at upper right corner in pencil.
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: March 1921
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 2001.4.107
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1920
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.115
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: July 1914
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
Object number: EL 1995.1
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: 1914-19
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
Object number: 1994.200
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: September 1909
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 2001.4.56
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1908
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 2001.4.49
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1920
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 2001.4.113
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1920
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.114
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: 1908
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 2001.4.182
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: August 1910
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.24