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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.661
People
George Yewell, American (Havre-de-Grace, MD 1830 - 1923 Lake George, NY)
Title
Three Girls in a Park
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1861
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232031

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
27 x 21.5 cm (10 5/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Geo.H. Yewell-1861-
  • inscription: verso, pencil, handwritten: Geo. H. Yewell / New York / The Confidants / May 1872
  • stamp: back of canvas, black ink, stamped: [ ] / DE FORGE / [ ] DI COULEUR / [ ]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by Williams Hayes Fogg; his bequest to his wife, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.661
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kimberly Orcutt, "Personal Collecting Meets Institutional Vision: The Origins of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum", Journal of the History of Collections (2006), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 267-284, p. 270
  • 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. 457, cat. 481, ill.

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