1969.184: Springtide

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1969.184

People

William Lamb Picknell, American (Marblehead, MA 1853 - 1897 Marblehead, MA)

Title

Springtide

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1890-1897

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311492

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

88.9 x 111.8 cm (35 x 44 in.)
framed: 123.2 x 146.1 x 10.2 cm (48 1/2 x 57 1/2 x 4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: Wm L. Picknell

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Purchased from the executor's sale of Picknell's studio, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, January 19, 1900.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes

Accession Year

1969

Object Number

1969.184

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Executor's Sale of Oil Paintings by William L. Picknell, auct. cat., Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York, NY, January 19, 1900), no. 48?
• Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 18
• 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. 270-71, cat. 283, ill. p. 271

Exhibition History

• The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

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