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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.10.61
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
Title
A Border Family
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1862
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306713

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and white chalk on brown wove paper
Dimensions
image: 24.4 x 43.8 cm (9 5/8 x 17 1/4 in.)
actual: 27.4 x 43.7 cm (10 13/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Rimmer / Boston / 1862
  • inscription: lower edge, graphite, in artist's hand: A Border Family
  • inscription: verso, graphite: [ ] - 79 -
  • exhibition label: removed from mat, now in curatorial file, paper, printed, typed, and handwritten: [red pencil:] SE 1826

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From the artist to his daughter Caroline Hunt Rimmer, at his death, 1879; to her niece Edith Rimmer Durham Simonds, 1918; purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.10.61
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
White chalk smudges in upper half-- maybe accidental?

Publication History

  • Lincoln Kirstein, William Rimmer: 1816-1879, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1946), cat. no. 73
  • Abraham A. Davidson, The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters, exh. cat., Dutton (New York, NY, 1978), p. 72
  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, no. 52, pp. 783-785
  • Jeffrey Weidman, William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo, exh. cat., Brockton Art Museum-Fuller Memorial/University Press of New England (Brockton, MA and Hanover, NH, 1985), no. 44, p. 85, repr. in b/w
  • Randall R. Griffey, "'Herod Lives in This Republic': Slave Power and Rimmer's Massacre of the Innocents", American Art, National Museum of American Art and University of Chicago Press (New York, Spring 2012), vol. 26, no. 1, pp 112-125, pp. 122-123, fig. 11

Exhibition History

  • Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by the Late Dr. William Rimmer on Exhibition and Private Sale, J. Eastman Chase's Gallery, Boston, 02/01/1883 - 02/28/1883
  • William Rimmer: 1816-1879, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/05/1946 - 11/27/1946; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/07/1947 - 02/02/1947
  • William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo, Brockton Art Center-Fuller Memorial, Brockton, 10/06/1985 - 01/12/1986; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/22/1986 - 04/20/1986; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 06/01/1986 - 07/26/1986

Verification Level

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