American (Charleston, SC 1841 - 1919 Ellenville, NY)
The Message, 1893
Painting
American
, 19th century
Creation Place:
United States
Oil on board
23.5 x 30.5 cm (9 1/4 x 12 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
, 2003.279
Department of American Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts
, Marks
signed: l.r. E. L. Henry 93
Provenance
Gift of the artist to Beers Brothers, framers; gift of one of the brothers to his daughter; her gift to William Beers Crowell, her son; his gift to Gilbert Gabriel; his sale to Mrs. Norman B. Woolworth, New York; private collection; Alexander Gallery, New York; their sale to private collector, 1999; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 2003.
Bibliography
Elizabeth McCausland, "The Life and Work of Edward Henry Lamson N.A., 1841-1919", New York State Museum Bulletin, University of the State of New York (Albany, NY, September 1945), no. 339, No. A-258, p. 292
Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., The American Painting Collection of Mrs. Norman B. Woolworth, exh. cat., (New York, 1970), p. 31, no. 46
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 University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 140, cat. 104, ill.
Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., The American Painting Collection of Mrs. Norman B. Woolworth, exh. cat., (New York, 1970), p. 31, no. 46
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 University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 140, cat. 104, ill.
Exhibition History
Harvard Collects American Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/09/2003 - 02/22/2004
Tangible Things, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, 01/24/2011 - 05/29/2011