1932.84: Study of Trees, Cassis

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.84

People

Dodge Macknight, American (Providence RI 1860 - 1950 E. Sandwich, MA)

Title

Study of Trees, Cassis

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1887?

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306583

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor on heavy off-white wove paper

Dimensions

39.6 x 51.3 cm (15 9/16 x 20 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: red watercolor, l.r.: Dodge Macknight
• inscription: verso, u.l., blue ink: E. 8
• inscription: verso, u.l., graphite: E. 8 Fitzgerald collection
• inscription: verso, u.l., graphite: Cassis / Summer 1887 / [erased:] "After the Harvest" / This is the picture which I wished to own / when exhibited at D & R old shop on / Park St., where I saw it in 1888.
• inscription: verso, u.r., black ink: [crossed off:] Street with / Study of trees, Cassis No. 3 in exh. of 1888
• inscription: verso, lower edge, graphite: 19 3/4 x 15

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Desmond Fitzgerald, Gift of his children to the Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the children of Desmond Fitzgerald

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.84

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, Doll and Richards, 1888, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 01/28/1888 - 02/09/1888

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