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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.702
People
William Hart, American (Paisley, Scotland 1823 - 1894 Mt Vernon, NY)
Title
Valley of the Bedford
Other Titles
Former Title: Landscape with River and Cows
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1859
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232037

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
28.6 x 51.1 cm (11 1/4 x 20 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: WM Hart

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by William Hayes Fogg, New York; his bequest to his wife, Mrs. William Hayes Fogg, 1884; her bequest to the 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
1895.702
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 249-50, cat. 200, ill.
  • Gary L. Stiles, William Hart: Catalogue Raisonné and Artistic Biography, Hart Editions (New York, 2020), no. CR198, repr.

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