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Parmelee Garden

c. 1920

Dora Louise Murdoch

Artist, American, 1857 - 1933

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Artwork overview

Medium

watercolor on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)
Dimensions

image: 25.4 × 33.02 cm (10 × 13 in.)
sheet: 28.58 × 36.2 cm (11 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.)
Accession

2015.19.512

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

James Parmelee, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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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. 119, no. 794.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown watercolor: D. L. MURDOCH

Wikidata ID

Q64541243

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