South-West Point, Conanicut
1878 / 1879
Artist, American, 1833 - 1905
William Trost Richards
Attributed to
NGA, West Building, G-022-A
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and gouache on fibrous brown wove paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Riggs Parker, honoring their children
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Dimensions
stretcher size: 13 × 23 1/4 in. (33 × 59 cm)
framed: 97.79 × 165.1 × 6.67 cm (38 1/2 × 65 × 2 5/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2023.32.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Possibly Newman Galleries, Philadelphia); Erik Thune, Philadelphia [1893 – 1983]; by descent to his daughter, Emma Parker (née Thune), Chilmark, MA [1992 - 1997?]; J. B. Riggs Parker, her widower, Chilmark, MA; gift to the National Gallery of Art, 2023.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1878
Paris Universal Exposition, Paris, 1879, no. 138.
Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society, Galleries of the National Academy of Design, New York, 1878, no. 363, illustrated p. 7.
Bibliography
1980
Ferber, Linda S. William Trost Richards (1833-1905) : American Landscape and Marine Painter. New York, 1980: 286, 316, and fig. 236.
2017
Foster, Kathleen A. American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent. Philadelphia, 2017: 411, note 77.
2020
Shahi, Kimia R. "William Trost Richards's 'Real Drawing' and the Currency of Watercolor, ca. 1875 - 85" American Art 34 (2020): 69-70.
2024
Hoisington, Rena M. "Gifts and Acquisitions."Art for the Nation no. 68 (Spring 2024): 21, repro.
Inscriptions
recto: at lower right, in black ink: Wm. T. Richards / 1879