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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.184
People
William Lamb Picknell, American (Marblehead, MA 1853 - 1897 Marblehead, MA)
Title
Springtide
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1890-1897
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311492

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
88.9 x 111.8 cm (35 x 44 in.)
framed: 123.2 x 146.1 x 10.2 cm (48 1/2 x 57 1/2 x 4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Wm L. Picknell

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the executor's sale of Picknell's studio, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, January 19, 1900.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.184
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Executor's Sale of Oil Paintings by William L. Picknell, auct. cat., Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York, NY, January 19, 1900), no. 48?
  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 18
  • 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. 270-71, cat. 283, ill. p. 271

Exhibition History

  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

Verification Level

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