The Waterfall

1860s-1870s

John William Hill

Artist, American, 1812 - 1879

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and gouache over graphite on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 42.23 × 35.24 cm (16 5/8 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.136.188


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C. K. Johnson, Hurley, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979

1979

  • Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

  • American Places, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979-1980

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. 27-29, no. 13, 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. 12, no. 80.

Inscriptions

lower right in red goauche: J.W.Hill

Wikidata ID

Q64584502


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