The Bell Buoy

1894

William Trost Richards

Associated Names
William Trost Richards

Artist, American, 1833 - 1905

This painting shows a scene of an ocean with choppy waves under a cloudy sky. The crashing waves are depicted with white, blue, and green colors. A buoy is seen in the sea off to the right, tilted to the side. The water and sky are highlighted with pale streaks of pink. The painting is surrounded by an off-white border that some of the paint colors seem to bleed into.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor with white highlights over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Charles C. Glover, Jr.)

  • Dimensions

    image: 33.02 × 60.64 cm (13 × 23 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 39.69 × 66.68 cm (15 5/8 × 26 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.944

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles C. Glover, Jr., Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • Changing Prospects, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977-1978

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

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. 73, no. 458.

1986

  • Nygren, Edward J. and Linda Crocker Simmons. American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1986: no. 20.

Inscriptions

lower left in black watercolor: Wm. T. Richards. 94.

Wikidata ID

Q64639718

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