Cherry Lake, White Mountains, 1859

Not on View

Medium

graphite with gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 32.07 × 48.26 cm (12 5/8 × 19 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. J.L.M. Curry)

Accession Number

2015.19.2619

Artists / Makers

Aaron Draper Shattuck (artist) American, 1832 - 1928

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: A.D.S. / Cherry Lake White Mts. / Aug 29. 59.; lower right in graphite: IN MAINE NORTH / WHITE MTS.; center left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 11 x 17 1/2 signed "ADS"

Provenance

the artist, Granby, Connecticut; Helen Howard Shattuck Stewart (the artist's daughter), Granby, Connecticut, 1928; Katherine Stewart Emigh (the artist's granddaughter), New Britain, Connecticut, 1966; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Emigh, Katherine Stewart
Shattuck Stewart, Helen Howard
Shattuck, Aaron Draper

Exhibition History

1977: Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979

1979: American Places, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979-1980

1979: Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

1980: Hudson River Drawing, Falmouth Public Library, Massachusetts, 1980-1981

1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982-1983

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. 72, no. 454.