Merrymount, 1934

Not on View

Medium

watercolor, chalk, and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 19.69 × 22.86 cm (7 3/4 × 9 in.)

sheet: 31.43 × 27.94 cm (12 3/8 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. G. V. Fox)

Accession Number

2015.19.2813

Artists / Makers

Elsie Driggs (artist) American, 1898 - 1992

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Inscription

center right in graphite: Elsie Driggs; center left edge in graphite by unknown hand: inside measurement 9 1/2; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: inside measurement 9 1/2

Provenance

(Coe Kerr Gallery, New York); (Hull Gallery, Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Coe Kerr Gallery
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Hull Gallery

Exhibition History

1982: Modernist Watercolors, Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 12

2008: Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. 26, repro

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. 190, no. 1285.