The Little Sugar House
Herbert Ogden Waters, American (born China), 1903 - 1996
1948
Color wood engraving on tissue in three shades of brown
Block: 8 1/4 × 7 in. (21 × 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 7/8 in. (24.2 × 20 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.951.40.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in red pencil, lower right margin: Herbert Waters
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
Carpenter Hall, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1951.
Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930's and 1940's, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 3, 1994-March 5, 1995
Winter in Rural America, Prints from the 1930's and 1940's, [American Works on Paper wall], Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 1-May 30, 2011.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930s and 1940s, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1994, listed no. 53, ill. fig. 4.
Bert Yarborough, Herbert Waters: A Retrospective, Karl Drerup Fine Arts Gallery, Plymouth State College, 1991.
Provenance
Herbert Ogden Waters, Campton, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1951.
Catalogue Raisonne
Listed in "Herbert Waters: A Retrospective", 1991.
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