Pastel drawing of a large foamy waterfall with suggestion of greenery along the right edge of the rocks.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The 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
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
Level 3, Room 3620, University Study Gallery
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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
  • Signed: blue pastel, l.r.: SW [monogram in heart] MD XCVIII

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
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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

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