DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Head of a Boy

19th-20th century

Artists

Denman Waldo RossArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper mounted to off-white cardboard

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

mount: 35.5 x 25.4 cm (14 x 10 in.) actual: 17.8 x 11.2 cm (7 x 4 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Gift (?) of the artist to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA; their bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

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