The Bee: Lothrup Weld's House
Edwin Walter Dickinson, American, 1891 - 1978
1943
Graphite on smooth wove paper
Overall: 9 13/16 × 11 7/16 in. (24.9 × 29.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Claire and Richard P. Morse 1953 Fund and the William S. Rubin Fund
D.991.15
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower left: The Bee / Lothrup Weld's House / Built 1740 E.W. Dickinson / Wellfleet 1943 / on the introduction of the stove, / the original chimneys & fireplaces were taken out in order to make closets.
Course History
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Katherine Hart, Spring 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Jennifer Caine, Spring 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013
SART 15, Drawing I, Kate Emlen, Fall 2013
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
WRIT 7, Religion and Literature: Revisioning the Invisible, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2014
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Summer 2014
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II/III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Spring 2019
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Spring 2019
SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2019
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2020
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Esme Thompson, Fall 2020
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Fall 2021
Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2023
Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2023
Studio Art 15.03, Drawing I, Andrew Shea, Fall 2023
Studio Art 20.01, Studio Art 71.01, Drawing II, III, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2024
Exhibition History
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 24, 39, 184, 269-270, ill. p. 185, no. 61.
Provenance
The artist; to Ansley Wilcox Sawyer (1885-1955) and Esther Hoyt Sawyer (1890-1971), Buffalo, New York; given to A.[rthur] Douglas Dodge (1879-1963) and his wife, Alice Rathbone Bowditch Dodge (1886-1967), 1944; consigned to Babcock Galleries, New York, New York, 1991; sold to present collection, 1991.
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