View from East End of Bear Island

1848

Alvan Fisher

Associated Names
Alvan Fisher

Artist, American, 1792 - 1863

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 24.77 × 35.24 cm (9 3/4 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.89.19

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2004

  • American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004.

Bibliography

1982

  • Adelson, Fred Barry. Alvan Fisher (1792-1863): Pioneer in American Landscape Painting. Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, New York: 1982: 563.

1994

  • Wilmerding, John. The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast. Princeton, 1994: 22, 185.

Inscriptions

Not signed. "View from E end of Bear Is ? 13 Aug/48 / Fog" upper left margin, graphite, artist's hand.

Markings

None.

Watermarks

None.

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