1936.144: Fishing Boats on the Beach

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.144

People

William Stanley Haseltine, American (Philadelphia, PA 1835 - 1900 Rome, Italy)

Title

Fishing Boats on the Beach

Other Titles

Former Title: Italian Fishing Boats

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1858

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306997

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

36.6 x 53 cm (14 7/16 x 20 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, black ink and graphite: Property of Helen Haseltine Plowden / Dawnedge, Aspley Guise, Bletchley / No. 49 of series 3 - 2 fishing boats-- probably Italian / and one row boat / size: -- 14 1/2 x 21 / [graphite:] painted between 1856 & 1870
• exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: no. 103
• watermark: J. WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1849

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Artist's bequest to his daughter, Helen Haseltine Plowden, c. 1900; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Helen Haseltine Plowden

Accession Year

1936

Object Number

1936.144

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• [Reproduction only], Bulletin [Des Moines Art Center], Des Moines Art Center (Des Moines, IA, June 1959)., repr.
• Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., The American Line: 100 Years of Drawing, exh. cat., Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA, 1959), cat. 37
• Donelson F. Hoopes, The Düsseldorf Academy and the Americans, exh. cat., High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA, 1973), p. 42, cat. 103
• Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, The Hudson and the Rhine: Die amerikanische Malerkolonie in Düsseldorf im 19. Jahrhundert, exh. cat. (Dusseldorf, 1976), pp. 48-49, cat. 40, ill.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 136, cat. 100

Exhibition History

• Watercolors by William S. Haseltine, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 07/05/1938 - 08/01/1938
• The American Line: 100 Years of Drawing, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 01/01/1959 - 02/15/1959; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 03/01/1959 - 03/21/1959; Newcomb College, New Orleans, 04/02/1959 - 04/22/1959; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 05/04/1959 - 05/24/1959; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, 06/10/1959 - 06/30/1959; Oglebay Institute, Wheeling, 08/01/1959 - 08/21/1959; Kansas State Teachers' College, Emporia, 09/03/1959 - 09/23/1959; Frye Museum, Seattle, 10/05/1959 - 10/25/1959; Tucson Art Center, Tucson, 11/08/1959 - 11/29/1959; Madison Art Association, Madison, 12/08/1959 - 12/31/1959; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, 01/17/1960 - 02/21/1960; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, 03/05/1960 - 03/25/1960; Root Art Center, Hamilton, 04/10/1960 - 06/05/1960
• The Düsseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, 01/07/1973 - 02/11/1973; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, 04/27/1973 - 07/28/1973; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 09/23/1973 - 10/28/1973
• The Hudson and the Rhine: Die amerikanische Malerkolonie in Düsseldorf im 19. Jahrhunder, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 04/04/1976 - 05/16/1976

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