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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.251
People
George Inness, American (Newburgh, NY 1825 - 1894 Bridge of Allan, Scotland)
Title
The Woodland Bank, Hastings
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1877-1885
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307807

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite with touches of white pigment on buff wove paper
Dimensions
27.6 x 38 cm (10 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Graphite, l.l.c.: G. Inness
  • inscription: verso, graphite: [entirely crossed out:] 10 1/2 x 14 3/4; 14 1/2 x 18 3/4
  • inscription: verso, graphite: No. 13
  • label: verso, one at center of each edge, paper, printed: [partial label; upper and lower edges:] size [left and right edges illegible]
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: 25
  • stamp: verso of mount, now encapsulated in curatorial file, stamped: George Inness / sold by order of his daughter / Mrs. J. C. Hartley / Sale March 1927 / American Art Ass'n
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, typed and printed: catalogue no. 31
  • gallery label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: no. 7692, titled "Woodland Bank."

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Jonathan Scott Hartley (1894-1927), sold; [through American Art Galleries, American Art Association, New York, March 24, 1927, lot 31]; to Vose Galleries, Boston (1927-1942), sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942.

Notes:
Mrs. Jonathan Scott Hartley (Helen Innes Hartley) was the artist’s daughter and she inherited the drawing upon his death in 1894.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.251
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles E. Slatkin and Regina Shoolman Slatkin, Treasury of American Drawings, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, NY, 1947), p. 20, no. 66 p. xiv., repr. as pl. 66
  • LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, University of Tennessee Press (Austin, TX, 1965), no. 993
  • George Inness: Works on Paper, exh. cat., Davis & Long Company (New York, NY, 1978), no. 31, ill.
  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 19
  • Kate Smith, "A Study of George Inness's Underdrawing Technique" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2002), Unpublished, pp. 1-14 passim
  • Michael Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ and London, 2007), vol. 2, p. 90, no. 756, ill., p. 90

Exhibition History

  • American Drawings, 17th through 20th Centuries, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/03/1948 - 05/30/1948
  • George Inness: Works on Paper, Davis & Long Company, New York, 02/28/1978 - 03/25/1978
  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

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