Hollyhocks | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.324
People: Julian Alden Weir, American (West Point, NY 1852 - 1919 New York, NY)
Title: Hollyhocks
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1879
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/307903

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor on off-white illustration board

Dimensions

54 x 35.4 cm (21 1/4 x 13 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: black ink, l.r.: J. Alden Weir / 79
inscription: back of backing board, graphite: #5245 / F [per note in file. no backing board on drawing 1/01.]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.324

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

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. 392-393, cat. no. 423, reproduced in color

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