Watercolor Tube: Gamboge | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: Straus.1083.1
People: Manufactured by F. Weber & Company, Inc.
Owned by John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title: Watercolor Tube: Gamboge
Classification: Artists' Materials
Work Type: watercolor paint, paint
Date: 19th-20th century
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/354764

Recorded Ownership History: Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA; to Fogg Art Museum; to the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Object Number: Straus.1083.1
Contact: am_straus@harvard.edu
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Erica E. Hirshler and Teresa A. Carbone, John Singer Sargent Watercolors, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Brooklyn Museum (Boston/Brooklyn, 2012), p. 208
Kathleen A. Foster, American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, 2017), p. 385, fig. 338
Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. in fig. 5 on p. 42

American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 03/01/2017 - 05/14/2017