Study for "Happy Would Be the Men of the Fields, If They Knew Their Good Fortune"
1932-1934
Artist, American, 1877 - 1939

Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal and graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 28.89 × 43.18 cm (11 3/8 × 17 in.)
sheet: 32.54 × 45.56 cm (12 13/16 × 17 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.365
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Major Ferry Kimball Heath, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1934; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
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. 170, no. 1157.
Inscriptions
lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 18 + 23; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 2'
Wikidata ID
Q64572290