Blankenbergh
1876
Artist, American, 1835 - 1900

Artwork overview
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Medium
gouache over graphite on blue wove paper laid down to board
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Roger H. Plowden, daughter of the artist)
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Dimensions
sheet: 38.26 × 55.88 cm (15 1/16 × 22 in.)
board: 40.96 × 58.42 cm (16 1/8 × 23 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.768
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mrs. Roger H. Plowden (daughter of the artist); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Memorial Exhibition of William Stanley Haseltine, N.A., National Academy of Design, New York, 1958, no. 93
1972
The Dusseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972-1973
1976
The Hudson on the Rhine, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Germany; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, 1976
1979
Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979
1983
American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983
1986
American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 30-31
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. 75, no. 472.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: W.S.H. / Blankenbergh. July 2nd / 1876; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: 15
Wikidata ID
Q64639591