No image available

DrawingsAmerican20th century

Front Half of an Elephant

20th century

Artists

Alexander CalderArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black crayon on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 43.2 x 35.5 cm (17 x 14 in.)

Provenance

Alexander Calder, Created, By descent through family to Nanette Sexton. Richard B. Bailey and Nanette C. Sexton, Boston MA, By descent through family, Gift to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991. Ms. Sexton is great-niece of the artist.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Variations on a Theme (No. 128)

Sara Sosnowy, 1994

Charcoal, oil stick, acrylic, and Liquid Paper on white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Gropius Residence, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938: Duplicate of BRGA.82.72 (1)

Walter Gropius, 1938

Black ink, graphite, and colored pencil on paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Charlie Parker

Denman Waldo Ross, 1933

Graphite on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Ouchy, Switzerland

Harold Moody Vanderbilt, 1929

Graphite and white pastel on gray-green wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled [Clouds]

Lyonel Feininger, 1953

Watercolor, black ink, and charcoal on cream modern laid paper, edges taped

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled (#1193)

George Sugarman, 1966

Acrylic on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled [Ruins with Tower]

Lyonel Feininger, 8/20/1950

Graphite and ink on paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

The Kiss

Carmen Louis Cicero, 1963

Black ink on heavy white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Three Men, Discussing

Lyonel Feininger, 1901

Graphite on cardboard

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Still Life

Marion Monks Chase, 20th century

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Watercolor on cream wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Possendorf

Lyonel Feininger, 1917

Graphite on paper

20th centuryAmerican