1939.252: Niagara Falls
DrawingsThe waterfall begins near the top and cascades down to a foamy mist in the lower left and center. The water is drawn in white, blues, greens, and greys. A large dark green leafy shrub is growing just next to the top of the waterfall on the right. The rest of the right side is marked by cross hatch lines and textures in greens and browns.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1939.252
- People
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Sarah Wyman Whitman, American (Baltimore, MD 1842 - 1904 Boston, MA)
- Title
- Niagara Falls
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1898
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/307616
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3620, University Study Gallery
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Pastel on beige wove paper, attached to canvas wrapped around stretcher
- Dimensions
- 47 x 43.2 cm (18 1/2 x 17 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: blue pastel, l.r.: SW [monogram in heart] MD XCVIII
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Mary C. Wheelwright, Boston, MA; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1939.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mary C. Wheelwright
- Accession Year
- 1939
- Object Number
- 1939.252
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Erica E. Hirshler, A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, MA, 2001), p. 36, pl. 6
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950", American Art Review (April 2006), XVIII, no. 2, pp. 88-93, repr. p. 89
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist, repr. (n.p.)
- 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. 444-45, cat. no. 470, reproduced in color, p. 445
Exhibition History
- A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 08/15/2001 - 12/02/2001
- American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
Verification Level
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