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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.68
People
Childe Hassam, American (Boston, MA 1859 - 1935 E. Hampton, NY)
Title
Big Sycamore, Harper's Ferry
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1926
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307758

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 38.3 x 55.1 cm (15 1/16 x 21 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, l.l.: Childe Hassam, April 13, 1926
  • inscription: verso, lower edge, graphite: The Big Sycamore, Harpers Ferry 346.26
  • inscription: verso, u.r., graphite: [300 lbs?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
1941.68
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Exhibition History

  • Etchings, Lithographs, Lithotints, Drawings, Water-Colors and Pastels by Childe Hassam, Arthur H. Harlow & Co., New York, 01/22/1927 - 02/11/1927
  • A History of American Watercolor Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 01/27/1942 - 02/25/1942

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