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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.705
People
James McDougal Hart, American (Kilmarnock, Scotland 1828 - 1901 Brooklyn, NY)
Title
Sunday Afternoon, Berkshire County, Mass.
Other Titles
Former Title: Sunday Afternoon
Former Title: Sunday P.M.
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1857
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231711

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.3 x 46.4 cm (10 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
framed: 38.1 x 57.2 x 5.1 cm (15 x 22 1/2 x 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Jas M Hart 57

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased by William Hayes Fogg, New York, from a sale run by Samuel P. Avery, 1867; his bequest to his wife, Mrs. William Hayes Fogg, 1884; her bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.705
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 71, ill.
  • Kimberly Orcutt, "Personal Collecting Meets Institutional Vision: The Origins of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum", Journal of the History of Collections (2006), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 267-284, p. 270, p. 274
  • 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. 133, cat. 97, ill.

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

Verification Level

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