Studies for "Sowing the Word"
c. 1868
Artist, American, 1816 - 1906
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Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite and chalk on blue wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)
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Dimensions
sheet: 20.48 × 20.8 cm (8 1/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.2482
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Ira Spanierman, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
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. 32, no. 226.
Inscriptions
lower center in graphite: For Sowing the Word / (A. P. Stokes [not deciphered] pictures); lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 7711 A Spanierman
Wikidata ID
Q64540746