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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.140
People
Homer Dodge Martin, American (Albany, NY 1836 - 1897 St Paul, MN)
Title
Blossoming Trees
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1882-1886
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311385

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
38.4 x 61.3 cm (15 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.)
framed: 56.5 x 78.7 cm (22 1/4 x 31 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by Mrs. Charles O. Gates before 1904; acquired from her by Dr. F.L. Babbott before 1939; acquired from him by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, c. 1940; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.140
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elizabeth Gilbert Martin, Homer Martin: A Reminiscence, William Macbeth Gallery (New York, NY, 1904), fig. 24
  • Dana H. Carroll, Fifty-Eight Paintings by Homer D. Martin (New York, NY, 1913), fig. 25
  • 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. 108, ill.
  • 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. 218, cat. no. 168, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

Verification Level

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