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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1938.111
People
Durr Freedley, American (Indianapolis IN 1888 - 1938 Lexington MA)
Title
Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer (1851-1934)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1927
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307723

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache on prepared linen
Dimensions
sight: 64.5 x 53.6 cm (25 3/8 x 21 1/8 in.)
frame: 88.7 x 77.8 x 7.6 cm (34 15/16 x 30 5/8 x 3 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: red watercolor, u.r.: Durr Freedley / XXVII
  • inscription: back of frame, upper member, graphite: 3772/17

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of Durr Freedley, sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1938.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1938
Object Number
1938.111
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 12, cat. 88
  • Judith K. Major, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer: A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age, University of Virginia Press (Charlottesville and London, 2013), p. 204, ill. (black and white)
  • Nancy Whipple Grinnell, Reviving Durr Freedley: Newport's Forgotten Artist, exh. cat., Newport Art Museum (Newport, RI, 2015), pp. 31, 35, fig. 17, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Durr Freedley, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/06/1938 - 10/20/1938; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 11/01/1938 - 11/30/1938
  • Durr Freedley Memorial Exhibition, Walker Galleries, New York, 01/03/1939 - 01/21/1939
  • American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994
  • Reviving Durr Freedley: Newport's Forgotten Artist, Newport Art Museum, Newport, 09/26/2015 - 01/18/2016

Verification Level

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