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Identification and Creation

Object Number
Straus.1083.1
People
Manufactured by F. Weber & Company, Inc.
Owned by John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Watercolor Tube: Gamboge
Classification
Artists' Materials
Work Type
watercolor paint, paint
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/354764

Physical Descriptions

Dimensions
2 × 1 × 5.5 cm (13/16 × 3/8 × 2 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA; to Fogg Art Museum; to the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Object Number
Straus.1083.1
Contact
am_straus@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), Appendix A, p. 66
  • Erica E. Hirshler and Teresa A. Carbone, John Singer Sargent Watercolors, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Brooklyn Museum (Boston/Brooklyn, 2012), p. 208
  • Kathleen A. Foster, American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, 2017), p. 385, fig. 338
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. in fig. 5 on p. 42
  • Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 5, Page 42

Exhibition History

  • American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 03/01/2017 - 05/14/2017