1933.19: Breaking Wave

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.19

People

Charles Herbert Woodbury, American (Lynn, MA 1864 - 1940 Jamaica Plain, MA)

Title

Breaking Wave

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

before 1933

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311138

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor & white gouache on off-white wove paper, mounted overall to cardboard

Dimensions

image: 43.1 x 53.2 cm (16 15/16 x 20 15/16 in.)
actual: 43.1 x 53.6 cm (16 15/16 x 21 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.r.: Woodbury
• gallery label: verso, paper
• inscription: verso, blue watercolor: Breaking Wave / [crossed off:] $400.00 ; [blue pencil:] $500
• inscription: verso, graphite: [encircled:] L#
• inscription: verso, black pencil: [Sam]?
• inscription: verso, blue pencil: [encircled:] 17; 2P
• inscription: verso, red pencil: [illeg.]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Annie Swan Coburn, Chicago IL, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Annie Swan Coburn

Accession Year

1933

Object Number

1933.19

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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