The Waterfall
1860s-1870s
Artist, American, 1812 - 1879

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and gouache over graphite on paperboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 42.23 × 35.24 cm (16 5/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
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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