The Red Steamshovel, c. 1930s

Not on View

Medium

watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 21.59 × 27.31 cm (8 1/2 × 10 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of John Dunn and Janice Dunn Rosenberg)

Accession Number

2015.19.2783

Artists / Makers

Edgar Nye (artist) American, 1879 - 1943

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Inscription

lower right in black ink: E NYE; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: $10.00 / 3 [circled]; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: THE RED STEAMSHOVEL [underlined]

Provenance

Charles Dunn, Washington, DC; John Dunn and Janice Dunn Rosenberg, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Charles Dunn Collection
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1979: Edgar Nye, Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, DC, 1979, no. 34

1983: The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800-1915, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, 1983-1984

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. 172, no. 1168.