2004.59: Daisies in a Meadow
DrawingsA cluster of tall wispy daisies grow upward from lower left, reaching into a light blue cloudless sky. The flowers have yellow petals with brown center, and thin tapered green leaves growing along their stems. The taller stems’ height is about three-quarter of the length of the work, a few shorter stems lean in towards center. Behind them is an open field of soft green, suggesting another daisy cluster in the distance on the right and other different wildflowers dotting the meadow. A watercolor wash on the horizon suggests distant trees. The sky takes up almost two-thirds of the work.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2004.59
- People
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Fidelia Bridges, American (Salem, Mass. 1835 - 1924 New Canaan, Conn.)
- Title
- Daisies in a Meadow
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1870-1879
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/49064
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor and gouache on gray-green wove paper
- Dimensions
- 32.9 x 22.8 cm (12 15/16 x 9 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Oliver Ingraham Lay (1845-1890), Stratford, CT, bequest; to his grandson, George C. Lay. [Jeffrey Brown Fine Arts, Amherst, MA, 1981], sold; to Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Brookline, MA, 1981, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2004
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.
- Accession Year
- 2004
- Object Number
- 2004.59
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 53, cat. 27, ill.
- Brian T. Allen, "Harvard's Fogg Museum Comes Back to Life with a Glorious Watercolor Show", National Review (August 10, 2023), discussed and repr.
- Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 14, 70, repr. as pl. 1 on p. 70
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/19/2022 - 01/30/2023
- American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023
Verification Level
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