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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.315
People
Asahel Lynde Powers, American (Springfield, VT 1813 - 1843 Olney, IL)
Title
Benjamin Clark (1776-1863)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1840
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227834

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on striped ticking
Dimensions
91.4 x 76.2 cm (36 x 30 in.)
framed: 94.9 x 78.7 x 3.5 cm (37 3/8 x 31 x 1 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso (no longer visible) : A. L. Powers/Painter/1840

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Descent through the family from Benjamin Clark, Malone, NY; to their daughter, Mary Lucy Clark Lawrence (Mrs. Robert Fowler Lawrence), Albany, NY; to her daughter Mary Abigail Lawrence Whitcomb (Mrs. William Wirt Whitcomb), Brookline, MA; to her son, Howard Whitcomb, Boston and Brookline, MA; to his niece, Helen Whitcomb Barss (Mrs. John S. Barss), Andover, MA, his niece; Mr. and Mrs. John S. Barss, Andover, MA; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1979.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Barss
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.315
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Antiques and the Arts Weekly, the Newtown Bee (November 2, 1973), ill. p. 16
  • Nina Fletcher Little, "Asahel Powers: Painter of Vermont Faces", Antiques Magazine (November 1973), vol. CIV, no. 5, pp. 846-853, p. 851-52, pl. III
  • Nina Fletcher Little, Asahel Powers: Painter of Vermont Faces, exh. cat., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection (Williamsburg, VA, 1973), p. 48, cat. 53, ill. p. 48, and frontispiece
  • Nina Fletcher Little, "Asahel Powers: Painter of Vermont Faces", Portrait Painting in America, the Nineteenth Century, ed. Ellen Miles, Main Street Press for Antiques Magazine Library (New York, 1977), pp. 140-147, p. 145, pl. III, ill. p. 146
  • Michael David Zellman, ed., American Art Analog, Chelsea House Publishers (New York, NY, 1986), vol. 1, p.156, ill. p. 156
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 33, 402-03, cat. 362, ill.

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