Big Sycamore, Harper's Ferry | Harvard Art Museums

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

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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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