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Sketchbook: Swimming

20th century

Artists

Irwin TousterArtist

Description

Book has 21 pages, with 20 drawings. Drawings made on one side of the paper only, made to be unfolded and viewed as one image in a strip.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite and wash on two sheets of accordian-folded laminated Japanese paper, bound in a book

Culture

American

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

closed: 15.9 × 10.3 × 3.2 cm (6 1/4 × 4 1/16 × 1 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Irwin Touster; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1963, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1990.

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