Pink Roses, 1875

Not on View

Medium

watercolor on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 35.56 × 25.4 cm (14 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

Accession Number

2004.165.2

Artists / Makers

Fidelia Bridges (artist) American, 1834 - 1923

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite by unknown hand: $75

Provenance

acquired c. 1980 from decendents of the artist, through Brown Corbin Fine Art, Lincoln, MA.; William and Abigail Gerdts, New York, 1994; gift to NGA, 2004

Associated Names

Gerdts, William H., Dr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1981: Fidelia Bridges, 1835-1923: American Pre-Raphaelite, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, 1981.

1997: American Beauty: The Rose in American Art (1800-1920), Berry Hill Galleries, Inc., NY, 1997

1998: For Beauty and For Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., NY, 1998.

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 93.

Bibliography

1981: Hill, Mary Brawley. Fidelia Bridges, American Pre-Raphaelite. Berry-Hill Galleries, New York: 1981.

1998: Danly, Susan and Bruce Weber. For Beauty and for Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.; New York, NY: Berry-Hill Galleries, c.1998: 9, 36.