Merrymount
1934
Artist, American, 1898 - 1992
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor, chalk, and graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. G. V. Fox)
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 19.69 × 22.86 cm (7 3/4 × 9 in.)
sheet: 31.43 × 27.94 cm (12 3/8 × 11 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.2813
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Coe Kerr Gallery, New York); (Hull Gallery, Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1982
Modernist Watercolors, Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 12
2008
Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. 26, repro
Bibliography
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 190, no. 1285.
Inscriptions
center right in graphite: Elsie Driggs; center left edge in graphite by unknown hand: inside measurement 9 1/2; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: inside measurement 9 1/2
Wikidata ID
Q64559296