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Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
The Three Fates
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

The Three Fates

Artist Kenneth Harris (American, 1904-1983)
CultureAmerican
Date1980
MediumWatercolor | Paper
DimensionsOverall: 16 x 24 in. (40.6 x 61 cm)
Overall, Frame: 22 x 29 1/2 in. (55.9 x 74.9 cm)
InscribedLL: "Kenneth Harris 1980"
Credit LineGift of Claudia R. Bessette in Memory of Claudia P. Robertson
Object number98.14
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a watercolor depicting classical sculpture in the British Museum. It is a painting of the so-called Fates (probably Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite) that originally adorned the east pediment of the Parthenon in Athens.