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Vertical landscape watercolor of tall delicate daisies left of center against an open meadow and soft blue sky.

A cluster of tall wispy daisies grow upward from lower left, reaching into a light blue cloudless sky. The flowers have yellow petals with brown center, and thin tapered green leaves growing along their stems. The taller stems’ height is about three-quarter of the length of the work, a few shorter stems lean in towards center. Behind them is an open field of soft green, suggesting another daisy cluster in the distance on the right and other different wildflowers dotting the meadow. A watercolor wash on the horizon suggests distant trees. The sky takes up almost two-thirds of the work.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.59
People
Fidelia Bridges, American (Salem, Mass. 1835 - 1924 New Canaan, Conn.)
Title
Daisies in a Meadow
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1870-1879
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/49064

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on gray-green wove paper
Dimensions
32.9 x 22.8 cm (12 15/16 x 9 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Oliver Ingraham Lay (1845-1890), Stratford, CT, bequest; to his grandson, George C. Lay. [Jeffrey Brown Fine Arts, Amherst, MA, 1981], sold; to Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Brookline, MA, 1981, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2004

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.59
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 53, cat. 27, ill.
  • Brian T. Allen, "Harvard's Fogg Museum Comes Back to Life with a Glorious Watercolor Show", National Review (August 10, 2023), discussed and repr.
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 14, 70, repr. as pl. 1 on p. 70

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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