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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.33.110
People
Martin Mower, American (Lynn, MA 1870 - 1960 Vancouver, British Columbia)
Title
Oak Leaf
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1895
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306360

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
28.6 x 21.5 cm (11 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, u.l., graphite, signed, in artist's hand: [upside down:] Martin Mower / 1895

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, transfer; to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University
Accession Year
1926
Object Number
1926.33.110
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan C. Ricci, "The Last Ruskinians", American Art Review (March -April 2007), XIX, no. 2, pp. 80-89, repr. p. 88
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 75, 94, pl. 31
  • Melissa Renn, "Deep Seers: John Ruskin, Charles Herbert Moore and the Teaching of Art at Harvard", Persistent Ruskin: Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect, ed. Keith Hanley and Brian Maidment, Ashgate Publishing (Surrey, England, 2013), pp. 137-155, pp. 151-153, fig. 9.3

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Martin Mower Paintings, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 08/01/1940 - 08/31/1940
  • The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007

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