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After taking classes in drawing and painting at the Art Students League of New York in the 1920s, Louis Nevelson began producing simple sketches of nude women in earnest. These works, including Untitled (Female Nude), 1935, were composed from a modernist approach to line drawing and display Nevelson's interest in Henri Matisse.

Source: NEWS Jan Feb Mar Apr 2021


DimensionsFrame: 20 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 1 in. (52.1 × 41.9 × 2.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 6 5/8 in. (30.1 × 16.8 cm)
Accession Number 2020.27
Classificationswork on paper
CopyrightARS
SignedNevelson (l,r black ink)
ProvenanceArtist. Jim and Ellen Hubbell, Des Moines [acquired by 2020]; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2020]
Untitled (Female Nude)
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Louise Nevelson
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Louise Nevelson
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Louise Bourgeois
ca. 1949
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Egon Schiele
1913
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Abraham Walkowitz
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Reginald Marsh
1931
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
John Steuart Curry
1926-1927
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Isabel Bishop
date unknown