1942.74: Administration Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1942.74
- People
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Childe Hassam, American (Boston, MA 1859 - 1935 E. Hampton, NY)
- Title
- Administration Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
- Other Titles
- Former Title: World's Fair, Chicago
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1892
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/307837
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gray and white gouache on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30 x 36.9 cm (11 13/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: gray gouache, l.l.: Childe Hassam [graphite:] 1892
- label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: Inscribed in black ink: Childe Hassam / World's Fair Chicago, 1892
- label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: [partial label, mostly illegible:] Fifth [ ] / [Almon?--] / Childe Hass[am] [ ] / [ ] / [ ]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Leonard Clayton Gallery, New York NY; Grenville L.Winthrop, New York, NY; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1942.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
- Accession Year
- 1942
- Object Number
- 1942.74
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This drawing represents the Administration Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, designed by Richard Morris Hunt.
Publication History
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
Exhibition History
- American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
Verification Level
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