1927.138: Head of a Girl; verso: Still Life

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1927.138

People

Robert Hatton Monks, American (Boston, MA 1856 - 1923 Wellesley, MA)

Title

Head of a Girl; verso: Still Life

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1898

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231583

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

30.5 x 27.7 cm (12 x 10 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Around edge of recto: 1st style. Every time I put the brush on the canvas it was with one pure color mixed with white to get the light + shade. This was painted about the same time as my picture in the Champs de Mars (1898) and in the same manner. Different subjects are handled in slightly different ways even when painted in the same style.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the artist to his wife, Mrs. Robert Hatton Monks, 1923; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1927.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Robert H. Monks

Accession Year

1927

Object Number

1927.138

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 232-33, cat. 180, ill. p. 233

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