Flowering Bush and Desert Plants, 19th century

Not on View

Medium

graphite with gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 13.97 × 32.39 cm (5 1/2 × 12 3/4 in.)

sheet: 23.81 × 35.56 cm (9 3/8 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association)

Accession Number

2015.19.581

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

John Frederick Kensett (artist after) American, 1816 - 1872

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite by unknown hand: A; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 16x20; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: Desert Flowers

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired by the National Gallery of Art, 2015

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Old Print Shop

Exhibition History

1974: The Art of South Dakota, South Dakota Memorial Art Center, Brookings, 1974

1979: Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

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. 32, no. 229.