1949.63: Children Playing in Public Garden, Boston; verso: Arlington Street Church, Boston

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.63

People

Arthur Clifton Goodwin, American (Portsmouth, NH 1864 - 1929 Boston, MA)

Title

Children Playing in Public Garden, Boston; verso: Arlington Street Church, Boston

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Public Garden, Boston

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th-20th century

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308318

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Pastel on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 33.1 x 48.4 cm (13 1/16 x 19 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.l.: A. C. Goodwin; black pastel, verso, l.l.: A. C. Goodwin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Arthur C. Goodwin, sold; to [Castano Galleries, Boston Massachusetts], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

NOTE: Provenance information from a note in the curatorial file.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

1949.63

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Sandra Emerson and Lucretia Hoover Giese, A. C. Goodwin, 1864 - 1929, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1974), catalogue no. 73

Exhibition History

• Unidentified [long-term loan], International Student Association, Cambridge, 01/01/1951 - 07/31/1964
• A. C. Goodwin Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/15/1974 - 08/25/1974

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