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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.33.177
People
Henry Roderick Newman, American (Easton NY 1843 - 1917 Florence Italy)
Title
Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1884
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306400

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
64.8 × 78.5 cm (25 1/2 × 30 7/8 in.)
frame: 95.9 × 110 × 8.6 cm (37 3/4 × 43 5/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, l.l.: H R Newman 1884
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper: no. 087 [Lure of Italy exhibition]
  • inscription: verso: [no inscriptions]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the artist by Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA, 1884; his gift to the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, 1926; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University
Accession Year
1926
Object Number
1926.33.177
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • H. Buxton Forman, An American Studio in Florence, The Manhattan (New York, NY, June 1884), v. 3, no. 6, pp. 525-39, pp. 529, 537, repro.
  • Kent Ahrens, "Pioneer Abroad: Henry R. Newman (1843-1917), Watercolorist and Friend of Ruskin.", The American Art Journal (New York, NY, November 1976), pp. 85-98., pg. 90, fig. 5, repro.
  • Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1985), under no. 61
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., William H. Gerdts, Erica E. Hirshler, Fred Licht, and William L. Vance, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Boston, MA and New York, NY, 1992), pp. 349-350, cat. 87, ill.
  • Royal W. Leith, Ruskin and his American Followers in Tuscany: A Historical Study, Brentham Press (St. Albans,UK, 1994), p. 10, n. 34, pl. 7
  • Royal W. Leith, A Quiet Devotion: The Life and Work of Henry Roderick Newman, exh. cat., Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1996), p. 36, reproduced in b/w as fig. 38
  • Allen Staley, Christopher Newall, Alison Smith, Ian Warrell, and Tim Batchelor, Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (New York, NY, 2004), pg. 131
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan C. Ricci, "The Last Ruskinians", American Art Review (March -April 2007), XIX, no. 2, pp. 80-89, repr. p. 85
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 78-79, 95, pl. 36
  • 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. 260, cat. 273, ill.
  • Kathleen A. Foster, American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, 2017), p. 71, fig. 60
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 2 on p. 71

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Works by Henry Roderick Newman, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/01/1885 - 12/31/1885
  • The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 09/16/1992 - 12/13/1992; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/03/1993 - 04/11/1993; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 05/16/1993 - 08/08/1993
  • The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007
  • American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 03/01/2017 - 05/14/2017
  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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