Study for "Leisure and Labor"

c. 1858

Frank Blackwell Mayer

Artist, American, 1827 - 1899

Frank Blackwell Mayer

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 19.05 × 24.61 cm (7 1/2 × 9 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.1048

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alexander Wilson Drake, New York; (Berry-Hill Galleries, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1966; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 23-25, no. 10, repro

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013-2014

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2011, p. 118, fig. 1.

Wikidata ID

Q64569790

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