Flowering Bush and Desert Plants
19th century
American 19th Century after John Frederick Kensett
Artist
Artist After, American, 1816 - 1872
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite with gouache on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association)
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 13.97 × 32.39 cm (5 1/2 × 12 3/4 in.)
sheet: 23.81 × 35.56 cm (9 3/8 × 14 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.581
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired by the National Gallery of Art, 2015
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
The Art of South Dakota, South Dakota Memorial Art Center, Brookings, 1974
1979
Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979
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. 229.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite by unknown hand: A; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 16x20; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: Desert Flowers
Wikidata ID
Q64534855