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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.578
People
F. Maxfield Parrish, American (Philadelphia, PA 1870 - 1966 Plainfield, NH)
Title
A Hill Prayer
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1899
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307920

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on buff wove paper
Dimensions
35.8 x 24.7 cm (14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
border drawn around image.: 29.8 x 19.4 cm (11 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.l.: M. P.
  • inscription: September of 1899, verso, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: Maxfield Parrish / "The Oaks" / Windsor: Vermont. / September of 1899 / No. 254
  • inscription: Verso, center: Maxfield Parrish "The Oaks," Windsor, Vermont, Sept. 1899

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Scott & Fowles, New York, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, 1937, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Copyright
© Maxfield F. Parrish / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.578
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marian Warner Wildman, "A Hill Prayer", The Century [magazine] (New York, NY, December 1899), vol. LIX, no. 2, ill. p. 222
  • Philippe Jullian, Dreamers of Decadence, Pall Mall Press Limited (London, England, 1971), p. 128, ill. 66
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), p. 26, fig. 10
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), p. 19, fig. 14

Verification Level

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