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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.6
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Three Men Talking, for "Jason Returning..."
Other Titles
Former Title: Three Men in Conversation
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1807-1808
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305469

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions
40.9 x 30.3 cm (16 1/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 42

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
Object Number
8.1955.6
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston, 1779-1843, a loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and memorabilia, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1947), no. 43, p. 10; reproduced in b/w p. 34
  • Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1948), p. 81, pl. XVII
  • Thomas W. Leavitt, "Washington Allston at Harvard", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, April 21, 1956), vol. 58, no. 13, p. 551
  • Thomas W. Leavitt, "Washington Allston's Studio", Art In America (1956), no. 44, ill. p. 13
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 3, reproduced in b/w fig. 8
  • William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), p. 222- 223, cat. 84, ill.
  • 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), p. 57, fig. 10

Exhibition History

  • Washington Allston, 1779-1843: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Memorabilia, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/11/1947 - 06/15/1947; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/17/1947 - 08/24/1947
  • "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/12/1979 - 02/03/1980; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/28/1980 - 04/27/1980

Verification Level

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