Building by a Dam
1850-1860
Artist, American, 1816 - 1872

Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite over watercolor on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 13.34 × 21.27 cm (5 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
sheet: 18.1 × 26.67 cm (7 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.559
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Ferargil Galleries, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1975
In Praise of Space, Westminster College Art Gallery, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania; Parsons School of Design, New York, 1975-1976
1977
Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 79
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
In Search of the Picturesque: Nineteenth Century Images of Industry Along the Hudson River Valley, Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; Albany Institute of History and Art, New York, 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. 25-27, no. 12, repro
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. 227.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: J.K.
Markings
embossed lower right: ACKERMAN & CO.
Wikidata ID
Q64582643