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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1970.48
People
Lilla Cabot Perry, American (Boston, MA 1848 - 1933 Hancock, NH)
Title
Mt. Fuji with Gravestones
Other Titles
Former Title: Japanese Landscape
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1898-1901
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311693

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
56.5 x 46 cm (22 1/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
framed: 70.3 x 59.7 x 6 cm (27 11/16 x 23 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: L. C. Perry
  • label: back of stretcher, paper: Mrs. L. S. Perry/ 312 Marlborough St./City/ Meade, Dodge & Company/ 6 Park St., Boston, Mass./ Importers and Dealers in/ Artists Materials/ Picture Framing
  • label: back of stretcher, paper: 29 / 2702
  • inscription: back of stretcher, pencil: Mrs. J. C. Grew
  • inscription: back of stretcher, pencil: 6112 GREW

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alice Perry Grew (daughter of the artist), by descent; to Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lyman (grand-nephew of the artist), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1970

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lyman
Accession Year
1970
Object Number
1970.48
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 266-67, cat. 279, ill. p. 267
  • Nancy E. Green and Christopher Reed, JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970, exh. cat., Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, New York, 2016), p. 210, cat. no. 94, repr.

Exhibition History

  • JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, 08/27/2016 - 12/18/2016; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 02/12/2017 - 05/21/2017

Verification Level

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