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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.10.5
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
Title
God the Father Creating the Sun and the Moon
Other Titles
Former Title: Creation
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1869
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306771

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red crayon over graphite on a printed portrait mount
Dimensions
45.4 x 32.7 cm (17 7/8 x 12 7/8 in.)
image: 29.8 x 23.5 cm (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: W. Rimmer; graphite, l.c.: W. Rimmer 1869

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From the artist to his daughter Caroline Hunt Rimmer, at his death, 1879; to her niece Edith Rimmer Durham Simonds, 1918; purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.10.5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This was drawn on a sheet with a lithographed border in the shape of an oval. Cloth tape at left edge of sheet; portrait mounts (see 1921.26, 1921.27) may have originally been bound in an album.

Publication History

  • Lincoln Kirstein, William Rimmer: 1816-1879, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1946), cat. 78
  • Jane Dillenberger and Joshua C. Taylor, The Hand and the Spirit: Religious Art in America 1700 - 1900, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, 1972), p. 27, no. 90, ill.
  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, pp. 946-950, no. 167
  • John Dillenberger, The Visual Arts and Christianity in America: The Colonial Period through the Nineteenth Century, Scholars Press (Chico, CA, 1984), p. 140, pl. 95
  • Jeffrey Weidman, William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo, exh. cat., Brockton Art Museum-Fuller Memorial/University Press of New England (Brockton, MA and Hanover, NH, 1985), p. 99, no. 62, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Sculptures, Oil Paintings and Drawings by Dr. William Rimmer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/01/1880 - 11/15/1880
  • Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by the Late Dr. William Rimmer on Exhibition and Private Sale, J. Eastman Chase's Gallery, Boston, 02/01/1883 - 02/28/1883
  • William Rimmer: 1816-1879, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/05/1946 - 11/27/1946; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/07/1947 - 02/02/1947
  • William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo, Brockton Art Center-Fuller Memorial, Brockton, 10/06/1985 - 01/12/1986; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/22/1986 - 04/20/1986; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 06/01/1986 - 07/26/1986
  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/14/2016 - 03/07/2017

Verification Level

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