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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.25
People
Thomas Pollock Anshutz, American (Newport, Ky. 1851 - 1912 Fort Washington, Penn.)
Title
Boys Playing with Crabs
Other Titles
Former Title: June (Crab Fight)
Former Title: A Crab Fight
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1894
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/20475

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor over charcoal on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
34 x 51.5 cm (13 1/2 x 20 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: back of frame: [printed:] Museum of Fine Arts / Boston, MA 02115 / [typed:] T[?]00 1.1994 / Anshutz / Boys Playing w/ / Crabs
  • label: back of frame: [inscribed, top left, black ink(?):] PE2 [encircled] / [stamped, upper right, black ink:] THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ ESTATE / GRAHAM [in a circle] / [printed:] Subject [typed:] JUNE / [printed:] Artist [typed:] Thomas Anshutz / (1851-1912) / [printed:] Size [typed:] 14 x 20 [printed:] No [inscribed, black ink:] 16474 / [typed:] From the Estate of / Thomas Anshutz / [stamped(?):] Thos. P. Anshutz / [printed:] JAMES GRAHAM & SONS / 1014 MADISON AVENUE / NEW YORK 21, N.Y.
  • label: back of frame: [printed:] Stebbins Family Collection / Property of: [inscribed, blue ink:} Promised gift to / Fogg Art Museum (2004) / [printed:] ANSHUTZ, THOMAS POLLOCK Am / 1851-1912 / June (Crab Fight) / c. 1894 / watercolor on paper / 14 x 20"
  • inscription: lower right: Thos. Anshutz
  • inscription: lower left: June

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of the artist. [James Graham & Sons, New York]. Mr. Carleton. [James Graham & Sons, New York], sold; to Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., 1976, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. in honor of Ethan Lasser
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.25
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1976), pp. 236-37, fig. 197
  • Carol Troyen, A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, exh. cat., The Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, NY, 1977), p. 12, cat. no. 2
  • Randall Griffin, Thomas Anshutz: Artist and Teacher, exh. cat., The Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, NY, 1994), pp. 64, 138, pl. 10
  • 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. 36, cat. 2, ill.
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 12 on p. 81

Exhibition History

  • American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 09/01/1976 - 10/26/1976; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/23/1976 - 01/23/1977; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 02/20/1977 - 04/17/1977
  • A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, 09/30/1977 - 11/06/1977; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, 11/22/1977 - 01/08/1978
  • Thomas Anshutz: Artist and Teacher, The Heckscher Museum of Art, 09/03/1994 - 11/20/1994
  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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