The Red Steamshovel
c. 1930s
Artist, American, 1879 - 1943
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of John Dunn and Janice Dunn Rosenberg)
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Dimensions
sheet: 21.59 × 27.31 cm (8 1/2 × 10 3/4 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.2783
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Charles Dunn, Washington, DC; John Dunn and Janice Dunn Rosenberg, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1979
Edgar Nye, Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, DC, 1979, no. 34
1983
The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800-1915, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, 1983-1984
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. 172, no. 1168.
Inscriptions
lower right in black ink: E NYE; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: $10.00 / 3 [circled]; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: THE RED STEAMSHOVEL [underlined]
Wikidata ID
Q64556424