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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.214
People
Richard Foster Yarde, American (Boston, MA 1939 - 2011 Northampton, MA)
Title
Cunard Street, Interior II
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1980
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370163

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on three sheets of overlapping white wove paper
Dimensions
76.2 × 111.1 cm (30 × 43 3/4 in.)
frame: 86.7 × 121 × 4.8 cm (34 1/8 × 47 5/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in graphite: Yarde '80
  • inscription: l.l., in graphite: Cunard St. Interior II
  • watermark: three sheets of paper, watermarks in lower left corner (26) and lower right corner (Arches France) except for R most paper which is oriented vertically, so 26 at lower right corner and Arches France at upper right corner: 26 / Arches France

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston] sold; to Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge (1980-2021), bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Copyright
© Estate of Richard Foster Yarde
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.214
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edward Behrens and Elisa Germán, "Water Power", Apollo (London, May 2023), CXCVII, No. 719, pp. 75-81, repr. 76-77, 79-80 [details]
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 36, 51, 143, repr. as fig. 5 on p. 51 [detail], pl. 72 on p. 143
  • 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 51

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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