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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.224
People
J. Frank Currier, American (Boston, MA 1843 - 1909 Waltham, MA)
Title
Houses near Schleissheim, Germany
Other Titles
Former Title: Red Sunset
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1880s
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309805

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on beige wove paper
Dimensions
20.6 x 39.3 cm (8 1/8 x 15 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of J. Frank Currier; Horace R. Burdick, Boston; estate of Doris (Mrs. Horace R.); John Curuby, Boston; George Haigh (Cambridge Fine Arts), Cambridge, MA.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alvin Whitley Fund and the Andrew Wyeth Fund for the Purchase of American Drawings
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.224
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, "The Impress of Truth: A Group of Pastels by J. Frank Currier", Dear Print Fan: A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn, ed. Craigen Bowen, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), pp. 281-86, fig. 1, pp. 281-82
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 86, cat. 53, ill.
  • Eric M. Rosenberg, "J. Frank Currier, Munich and the Anxious State of American Art ca. 1880", American Artists in Munich: Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes, ed. Christian Fuhrmeister, Deutscher Kunstverlag (Munich, 2009), pp. 99-108, p. 105, fig. 3

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000
  • American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006

Verification Level

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