Illustration for story by John Galsworthy for Harper's Weekly
Guy Pene du Bois, American, 1884 - 1958
published 1914
Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on (Strathmore) drawing board
Sheet: 19 13/16 × 14 1/2 in. (50.4 × 36.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift from Karl Schmidt Collection
W.937.7.2
Publisher
Harper's Weekly
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed, lower left: To Karl Schmidt / with the / respect of / Guy Pene / du Bois
Exhibition History
Curator's Choice: Dartmouth College Permanent Collection, William B. Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29-January 16, 1977.
Guy Pene du Bois and the Art of his Time, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 10-November 30, 1980; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, January 9-March 1, 1981; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, March 20-May 10, 1981.
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, ill. p. 232.
Provenance
The artist; given to Karl Schmidt; given to present collection, 1937.
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