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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.251
People
Sarah Wyman Whitman, American (Baltimore, MD 1842 - 1904 Boston, MA)
Title
Niagara Falls
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1898
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307615

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on beige wove paper, attached to canvas wrapped around stretcher
Dimensions
46.7 x 43.4 cm (18 3/8 x 17 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: white pastel, l.l.: SW [in monogram in heart]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: No 7

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mary C. Wheelwright, Boston, MA; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1939.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mary C. Wheelwright
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.251
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Erica E. Hirshler, A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, MA, 2001), p. 36, pl. 5
  • Erica E. Hirshler, "Women Artists at Trinity: Sarah Wyman Whitman and Margaret Redmond", The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston, ed. James O'Gorman, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA, 2004), fig. 9-2
  • 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. 444, cat. no. 469, reproduced in color
  • Greg Stone, Artful Business: 50 Lessons from Creative Geniuses (Boston, 2016), p. 46, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 08/15/2001 - 12/02/2001

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights
  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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