Study for Contemplation of the Mask
William Christopher, American, 1924 - 1973
1960-1963
Graphite heightened with white chalk on dark olive Canson paper stapled to a thin gold painted wooden board
Sheet: 25 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (64.8 × 49.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Carola B. and H. G. Terwilliger
D.972.225
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, upper right: Christopher; inscribed, upper left: For Carola and Twig
Exhibition History
Main Lobby, exhibited in conjunction with Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 7-December 6, 2014.
William Christopher, Paintings, Collages, Drawings, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Museum and Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 5-28, 1965.
Provenance
The artist (1924-1973), Hartland, Vermont; given to Carola Bischoff Terwilliger (1899-1984) and Harold Graves (Twig) Terwilliger (1888-1976), South Woodstock, Vermont, date unknown; lent to present collection, 1965; given to present collection, 1972.
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