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untitled [Abstract landscape]
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
Published ReferencesFred 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.

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.).
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.
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.
Inscribed "3 [encircled]" on verso at upper right corner in pencil.
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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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