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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1971.3
People
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
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
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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

Verification Level

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