About the Artwork
Surf Birds
between 1940 and 1950
Morris Graves
1910-2001
American
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Gouache and watercolor applied to recto and verso on dark yellow wove paper; sheet is crinkled intentionally
Sheet: 64 13/16 × 75 1/2 inches (164.6 × 191.8 cm) Framed: 30 3/8 × 40 3/8 × 1 1/2 inches (77.2 × 102.6 × 3.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
54.461
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Markings
Signed, lower right: M. Graves
Inscribed, in pencil, vertically, upper left corner: 28 x 33
Provenance
Frank Crowninshield.Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1954-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 35, no. 1 (1955-56): 20-21 (ill.).
Morris Graves. Exh. cat., St. Paul Art Center. St. Paul, 1963, no. 6.
Morris Graves Exhibition. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and Arts Club of Chicago. Detroit and Chicago, 1943, no. 14.
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Morris Graves, Surf Birds, between 1940 and 1950, gouache and watercolor applied to recto and verso on dark yellow wove paper; sheet is crinkled intentionally. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 54.461.
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