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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.92
People
Dodge Macknight, American (Providence RI 1860 - 1950 E. Sandwich, MA)
Title
Rocks, Port Goulphar, Belle Ile
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1889
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306618

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
39.1 x 43.9 cm (15 3/8 x 17 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: red watercolor, u.l. Dodge Macknight
  • inscription: u.l., graphite: 1891 Port Gouldphar [sic?] Belle Ile
  • inscription: verso, u.l., black ink: B. 5
  • inscription: verso, u.l., graphite: 172 / 18
  • inscription: verso, u.l., graphite: Les Côte Sauvage
  • inscription: verso, upper edge, black ink: No. 5 Ex 1892 "Rocks" painted in 1891-- Port Goulphar / Belle Ile
  • inscription: verso, center, black ink: 5

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
1932.92
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ann Galbally and Ursula Prunster, Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell & Matisse in Brittany, exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales (Melbourne, Australia, 2001), repr. p. 53
  • Martin Bailey, "A Friend of Van Gogh: Dodge Macknight and the Post-Impressionists", Apollo (July - August 2007), CLXVI no. 545, pp. 28-34, fig. 2 (color)
  • Wayne Tunnicliffe, John Russell: Australia's French Impressionist, exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales and Thames & Hudson (Sydney, 2018), pp. 165, 229 (checklist), repr. p. 164

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Doll and Richards, 1892, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 02/26/1892 - 03/09/1892
  • John Russell: Australia's French Impressionist, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07/21/2018 - 11/11/2018

Verification Level

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