1979.316: Mary Smith Clark (Mrs. Benjamin Clark) (1782-1858)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.316

People

Asahel Lynde Powers, American (Springfield, VT 1813 - 1843 Olney, IL)

Title

Mary Smith Clark (Mrs. Benjamin Clark) (1782-1858)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1840

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/227897

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on striped ticking

Dimensions

91 x 76.5 cm (35 13/16 x 30 1/8 in.)
framed: 94.3 x 79.4 x 3.5 cm (37 1/8 x 31 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: on verso: (no longer visitble) 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

1979.316

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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, ill. pl. IV, p. 853
• Nina Fletcher Little, Asahel Powers: Painter of Vermont Faces, exh. cat., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection (Williamsburg, VA, 1973), p. 49, cat. 54, ill. p. 49, 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. IV, ill. p. 147
• 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), pp. 33, 402-03, cat. 363, ill.

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