A Hill Prayer | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.578
People: F. Maxfield Parrish, American (Philadelphia, PA 1870 - 1966 Plainfield, NH)
Title: A Hill Prayer
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1899
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/307920

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink over graphite on buff wove paper

Dimensions

35.8 x 24.7 cm (14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
border drawn around image.: 29.8 x 19.4 cm (11 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: black ink, l.l.: M. P.
inscription: September of 1899, verso, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: Maxfield Parrish / "The Oaks" / Windsor: Vermont. / September of 1899 / No. 254
inscription: Verso, center: Maxfield Parrish "The Oaks," Windsor, Vermont, Sept. 1899

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Scott & Fowles, New York, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, 1937, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Copyright

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.578

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

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Publication History

Marian Warner Wildman, "A Hill Prayer", The Century [magazine] (New York, NY, December 1899), vol. LIX, no. 2, ill. p. 222
Philippe Jullian, Dreamers of Decadence, Pall Mall Press Limited (London, England, 1971), p. 128, ill. 66
Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), p. 26, fig. 10
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), p. 19, fig. 14

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