Figure study, untitled: Museum Object and Cultural History
Figure study, untitled: maker: Beal, Gifford. Object Name: drawing. Object Type: Drawings.
The object in the museum catalogue
Ink and brush drawing over pencil on white wove paper, no watermark, pencil borders roughed in. Main figure of [circus performer] sketched in pencil with broad brush work. Several smaller studies bordered with brush work in black ink.
Materials, dates and provenance
- maker: Beal, Gifford
- Object Name: drawing
- Object Type: Drawings
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: graphite (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 43 cm x 35.5 cm; 16 15/16 in x 13 31/32 in
- Subject: Circus
- ID Number: 2012.3036.75
- nonaccession number: 2012.3036
- catalog number: 2012.3036.75
- Credit Line: Estate of Gifford Beal through Katherine Degn, Kraushaar Galleries
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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