1935.18: Bright Day

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1935.18

People

Marion Monks Chase, American (Boston, MA 1874 - 1957 Carmel, CA)

Title

Bright Day

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th-20th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306833

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 38 x 56.3 cm (14 15/16 x 22 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black watercolor, l.l.: M. M. Chase
• label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, black ink, handwritten: [white label with red border:] "BRIGHT [ ]Y" / [ ]onks Chase
• inscription: old backing, now removed, graphite: #1 / case "O" containing 2 pictures / on top of "Vermont Winter"
• inscription: old backing, now removed, white chalk: 15 Gallery

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Grace Horne Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to Carl G. Cutler, Newtonville, Massachusetts, 1935, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1935.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Carl Cutler

Accession Year

1935

Object Number

1935.18

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Pinholes at all corners of sheet.

Exhibition History

• Untitled watercolor exhibition, Grace Horne Galleries, 1935, Grace Horne Galleries, 01/01/1935 - 03/31/1935
• Unidentified Watercolor Exhibition, The Fifteen Gallery, 1936, The Fifteen Gallery, New York, 01/01/1936 - 02/01/1936

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