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Tropical Bay [verso]

1936

William Vaughn Cash

Artist, American, 1888 - 1967

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Artwork overview

Medium

graphite on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Carolyn Campbell)
Dimensions

sheet: 28.89 × 36.67 cm (11 3/8 × 14 7/16 in.)
Accession

2015.19.2830.b

Caleta, Tropical Bay [recto]

William Vaughn Cash

1936

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Carolyn Campbell, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982; 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: 201, no. 1357.

Inscriptions

upper left in graphite in graphite by unknown hand: ADG 14

Wikidata ID

Q64639804

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