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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.37
People
William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
Title
Seascape
Other Titles
Former Title: Storm at Manchester
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1877
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311773

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
71.1 x 146.1 cm (28 x 57 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the artist by Quincy Adams Shaw; by descent to his daughter Pauline Shaw Fenno, 1908; to her daughter, Pauline Shaw Fenno; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum in memory of her mother, 1956.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Pauline Shaw Fenno in memory of her mother, Pauline Shaw Fenno
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.37
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1880), probably cat. 157
  • Henry Adams and Martha J. Hoppin, William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), p. 31, fig. 7, p. 32; cat. 41, p. 77
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 277, cat. 224, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/20/1879 - 01/31/1880
  • American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
  • William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/26/1979 - 08/19/1979

Verification Level

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