Old Cedars, Coast of Maine

1880

James David Smillie

Artist, American, 1833 - 1909

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 12.6 x 17.5 cm (4 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.4 x 27.8 cm (8 1/16 x 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.98.367

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Witthoft 1992, no. 17

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, New York); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 13, 1975; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, as Old Cedars, Coast of Maine.

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003, no cat.

Bibliography

1992

  • Witthoft, Brucia. _The Fine-Arts Etchings of James David Smillie, 1833-1909: Catalogue Raisonné _. Wales, UK: Edwin Mellen Press,1992, p. 98, no. 17.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: J.D. Smillie; lower center in plate: Old Cedars / Coast of Maine; lower right in plate: No. 15 / Ap 1880

Wikidata ID

Q76342797

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