1963.33: Niagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1963.33

People

William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)

Title

Niagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1878

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308667

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Pastel on blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

28.3 x 45.7 cm (11 1/8 x 18 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower right, graphite: 4

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

John Murray Forbes; his daughter Sarah Forbes Hughes; her daughter Mrs. David (Dorothea) Simmons; gift of the Trustees of Naushon Trust, 1963.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Trustees of the Naushon Trust (residual legatees under the will of Dorothea Simmons)

Accession Year

1963

Object Number

1963.33

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 82, ill.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1976), p. 133, fig. 102
• Henry Adams and Martha J. Hoppin, William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), pp. 18, 85, cat. 52, ill.
• S. Lane Faison, Jr., The New England Eye: Master American Paintings from New England School, College & University Collections, exh. cat., Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA, 1983), p. 29
• Elizabeth McKinsey, Niagara Falls: Icon of the American Sublime (Cambridge, 1985), p. 318, n. 6
• Marjorie B. Cohn, "A Slow Start for American Art at the Fogg", Harvard University Art Museums Review (Fall 1992), vol. II, no. 1, p. 3, p. 3, ill.
• Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, December 4, 1996), p. 155
• Nancy Mowll Mathews, American Dreams: American Art to 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art, Hudson Hills Press/Williams College Museum of Art (New York, 2001), p. 73
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
• Kathryn Price, A Strong Impression: William Morris Hunt's Niagara, brochure, Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA, 2009), ill. n.p.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 279-80, cat. 226, ill.

Exhibition History

• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
• William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/26/1979 - 08/19/1979
• 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
• A Strong Impression: William Morris Hunt's Niagara, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 10/17/2009 - 01/31/2010

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