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View of a landscape of large rocks in foreground with a body of water behind them, opening up to the left.

Rocks are cut away at different angles and levels, in colors of soft pastel orange-browns, blue-greys, and tans in the foreground. They cascade down to sandy shore level on lower left. Small green hills are seen across the water with a few trees on the right. On the upper right, green leafy samplings cluster at the top bending toward the water, grass holds some of the soil below it, but is eroded where the hill meets the rocky shore. The sky is a plain light blue, there’s no cloud or water activity, except for the suggestion of light waves.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.33.76
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
Landscape: Rocks and Water
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1865-1872
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306285

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
19.1 x 27.2 cm (7 1/2 x 10 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University
Accession Year
1926
Object Number
1926.33.76
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Margaret E. Gilman, "Studies in the Art of Drawing and Painting", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1945), vol. X, no. 3, pp. 74-80., pp. 74-80, reproduced in b/w p. 75
  • Frank Jewett Mather, Charles Herbert Moore: Landscape Painter, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1957), p. 40 , fig. 24
  • 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), p. 158, fig. 124
  • Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1985), catalogue no. 50, reproduced as colorplate 10, p. 138, and in b/w p. 198
  • Christopher Finch, American Watercolors, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1986), p. 90, illus, no. 118
  • Christopher Finch, Nineteenth-Century Watercolors, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1991), p. 222, color plate 298
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 65, 93, pl. 16
  • 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. 235, cat. 185, ill.
  • Melissa Renn, "Deep Seers: John Ruskin, Charles Herbert Moore and the Teaching of Art at Harvard", Persistent Ruskin: Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect, ed. Keith Hanley and Brian Maidment, Ashgate Publishing (Surrey, England, 2013), pp. 137-155, pp. 143-144, fig. 9.1
  • Linda S. Ferber and Nancy K. Anderson, The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2019), pl. 56, pp. 5, 230

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Works by Fine Artists, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/01/1945 - 01/01/1945
  • 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
  • The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 03/29/1985 - 06/10/1985; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/03/1985 - 09/08/1985
  • The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007
  • The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 04/14/2019 - 07/21/2019

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