1971.3: Gas Tanks (Study for "Tanks")
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1971.3
- People
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Arthur G. Dove, American (Canandaigua, NY 1880 - 1946 Huntington, NY)
- Title
- Gas Tanks (Study for "Tanks")
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Gas Tank and Building
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1937-38
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308962
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor and black ink on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 12.8 x 17.8 cm (5 1/16 x 7 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Signed: black ink, lower center: Dove
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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George Burton Cumming, Norwalk, Connecticut, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1971.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of George Burton Cumming in memory of E. Louise Lucas
- Accession Year
- 1971
- Object Number
- 1971.3
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 9, 25, 39, 95, cat. 17, fig. 11 (detail)
- Sue Welsh Reed and Carol Troyen, Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1993), p. lxv, fig. 26
- Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 42 on p. 111
Exhibition History
- Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971
- Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
- American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023
Verification Level
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