Harvard Art Museums > 1979.316: Mary Smith Clark (Mrs. Benjamin Clark) (1782-1858) Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Mary Smith Clark (Mrs. Benjamin Clark) (1782-1858) (Asahel Lynde Powers) , 1979.316,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/227897. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1979.316 People Asahel Lynde Powers, American (Springfield, VT 1813 - 1843 Olney, IL) Title Mary Smith Clark (Mrs. Benjamin Clark) (1782-1858) Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1840 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/227897 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on striped ticking Dimensions 91 x 76.5 cm (35 13/16 x 30 1/8 in.) framed: 94.3 x 79.4 x 3.5 cm (37 1/8 x 31 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: on verso: (no longer visitble) A.L. Powers/Painter/1840 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Descent through the family from Benjamin Clark, Malone, NY; to their daughter, Mary Lucy Clark Lawrence (Mrs. Robert Fowler Lawrence), Albany, NY; to her daughter Mary Abigail Lawrence Whitcomb (Mrs. William Wirt Whitcomb), Brookline, MA; to her son, Howard Whitcomb, Boston and Brookline, MA; to his niece, Helen Whitcomb Barss (Mrs. John S. Barss), Andover, MA, his niece; Mr. and Mrs. John S. Barss, Andover, MA; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1979. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Barss Accession Year 1979 Object Number 1979.316 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Antiques and the Arts Weekly, the Newtown Bee (November 2, 1973), ill. p. 16 Nina Fletcher Little, "Asahel Powers: Painter of Vermont Faces", Antiques Magazine (November 1973), vol. CIV, no. 5, pp. 846-853, p. 851, ill. pl. IV, p. 853 Nina Fletcher Little, Asahel Powers: Painter of Vermont Faces, exh. cat., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection (Williamsburg, VA, 1973), p. 49, cat. 54, ill. p. 49, and frontispiece Nina Fletcher Little, "Asahel Powers: Painter of Vermont Faces", Portrait Painting in America, the Nineteenth Century, ed. Ellen Miles, Main Street Press for Antiques Magazine Library (New York, 1977), pp. 140-147, p. 145, pl. IV, ill. p. 147 Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 33, 402-03, cat. 363, ill. Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
