- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1963.114
- People
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Everett Shinn, American (Woodstown, NJ 1876 - 1953 New York, NY)
- Title
- Central Park
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Central Park, New York
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1915
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308695
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Watercolor, gouache and black chalk on off-white wove paper mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 14.9 cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, lower right: E Shinn 1915
- inscription: verso of mount, graphite: [ ] W. C. 36 / No. 54 / 73rd St. & Central Park West / size 4 x 5 / P[ ] /Price-- $75.00 / TX / Price 75.00
- label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: No. APG 9137 D
- exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: Graphic Styles of the American Eight 2/29 - 4/11/76
- exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: No. APG 9137D
- Provenance
- Everett Shinn, possible gift; to John G. Pierce, bequest; to Mrs. John G. Pierce, Milton, Massachusetts, 1963, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1963.
NOTE: See correspondence in curatorial file indicating that Mrs. Pierce mentioned the work was a gift from the artist to her husband. - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. John G. Pierce in memory of her husband
- Accession Year
- 1963
- Object Number
- 1963.114
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 131, ill.
Sheldon Reich, Graphic Styles of the American Eight, Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City, UT, 1976), no. 113
Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), p. 38, cat. no. 57 p. 109
- Exhibition History
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A Revolt: The 12345678, Lakeview Center for Arts and Sciences, Peoria, 09/12/1969 - 11/09/1969
American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
Graphic Styles of the American Eight, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, 02/29/1976 - 04/11/1976
Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
The Artist in the Park, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 04/28/1980 - 05/30/1980
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