Harvard Art Museums
The Wracked Child
Alfonso OssorioLinkedCulture matchlcp-30653af985ad
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- Watercolor, black ink, pastel, crayon, and wax on blue wove paper, faded to white
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Department of Drawings
- Institution
- Harvard Art Museums
- Object ID
- 58253
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- Provenance
- Alfonso Ossorio, East Hampton, New York, sold; to Frederic and Siena Ossorio, Boulder, Colorado, 1986, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.
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