Setting Sun
William Louis Sonntag, American, 1822 - 1900
1890
Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Sheet: 13 1/8 × 9 15/16 in. (33.3 × 25.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
W.974.47
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left: W.L. Sonntag 90
Publication History
Nance D.W. Moure, William Louis Sonntag: Artist of the Ideal, Los Angeles, California, 1980, p. 137.
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. 246.
Provenance
Vose Galleries, Boston; sold to John Wilmerding, possibly 1972; sold to present collection, 1974.
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