Harbor Scene | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2000.214
People: Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title: Harbor Scene
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 19th-20th century
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/184438

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Watercolor on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 14.8 x 19.4 cm (5 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Presumably gift of the artist to Edgar O. Parker; to his son, Charles, at his death (?); his bequest to Mount Auburn Cemetery, 1989; gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Proprietors of The Cemetery of Mount Auburn, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year: 2000
Object Number: 2000.214
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Marie Frank, "Denman Waldo Ross and the Theory of Pure Design", American Art (Fall 2008), 22 no. 3, pp. 72-89, p. 74, repr. fig. 3
Marie Frank, Denman Ross and American Design Theory, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH, 2011), p. 45, repr. as pl. 4

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