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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.161
People
Augustus Vincent Tack, American (Pittsburgh, PA 1870 - 1949 New York, NY)
Title
Grenville Lindall Winthrop (1864-1943)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1932
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311401

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas mounted on board
Dimensions
sight: 120 x 89.5 cm (47 1/4 x 35 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Augustus Vincent Tack
  • inscription: back of canvas: Grenville Lindall Winthrop Esq. / Painted from Life at Groton Place / Lenox Massachusetts / by / Augustus Vincent Tack / August 1932

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the artist by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1933; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.161
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paul J. Sachs, "Grenville L. Winthrop: The Man and the Collector", Art News (January 1, 1944 - January 14, 1944), vol. XLII, no. 16, pp. 9, 35, repr., p. 9
  • Harvard University, Winthrop Family Portraits at Harvard: John Winthrop House, Harvard University, brochure (Cambridge, MA, April 1956), pp. 11-12
  • Augustus Vincent Tack, 1870-1949, exh. cat., American Studies Group, the Hilson Gallery, Deerfield Academy (Deerfield, MA, 1968), p. 42, reproduced in b/w p. 13
  • 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.20, fig. 7, reproduced in b&w
  • "A Library at Your Fingertips", website, accessed May 18, 2020, https://literaryarchive.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/a-library-at-your-fingertips/

Exhibition History

  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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