Otter Cliffs

1893

George Henry Smillie

Associated Names
George Henry Smillie

Artist, American, 1840 - 1921

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    translucent watercolor and graphite on brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.08 × 35.56 cm (9 7/8 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.89.40

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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

1992

  • Witthoft, Brucia. "George Smillie, N.A.: The Life of an Artist." American Art Review Summer (1992): 140, fig. 22.

1994

  • Wilmerding, John. The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast. Princeton, 1994: 148, 150, 189.

Inscriptions

Not signed. "Otter Cliffs / Mt Desert / Aug 2 '93" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "6705" verso, upper left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

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