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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.74
People
Childe Hassam, American (Boston, MA 1859 - 1935 E. Hampton, NY)
Title
Administration Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
Other Titles
Former Title: World's Fair, Chicago
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1892
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307837

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray and white gouache on brown wove paper
Dimensions
30 x 36.9 cm (11 13/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: gray gouache, l.l.: Childe Hassam [graphite:] 1892
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: Inscribed in black ink: Childe Hassam / World's Fair Chicago, 1892
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: [partial label, mostly illegible:] Fifth [ ] / [Almon?--] / Childe Hass[am] [ ] / [ ] / [ ]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Leonard Clayton Gallery, New York NY; Grenville L.Winthrop, New York, NY; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1942.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.74
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This drawing represents the Administration Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, designed by Richard Morris Hunt.

Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist

Exhibition History

  • American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006

Verification Level

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