The Champ
Dorothy Varian, American, 1895 - 1985
1938
Opaque and transparent watercolor and graphite on heavy wove paper
Sheet: 14 1/16 × 18 1/8 in. (35.7 × 46.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Victor Borella, Class of 1930
W.976.234
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right.
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. 248.
Provenance
The Downtown Gallery, New York [label]; collection of Nelson Rockefeller, New York; given to Victor Gaspar Borella [1906-1975, Class of 1930; Nelson Rockefeller's Dartmouth classmate and business associate]; given to present collection from the Estate of Victor G. Borella, Enfield, New Hampshire [arranged by his brother-in-law Ex-New Hampshire Governor Lane Dwinell, Class of 1928], 1976.
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