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Lucien Whiting Powell

The Afterglow, Grand Canyon, Arizona, c. 1904

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache on paperboard

Dimensions

sheet: 51.12 × 76.52 cm (20 1/8 × 30 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

Accession Number

2015.143.32

Artists / Makers

Lucien Whiting Powell (artist) American, 1846 - 1930

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Inscription

lower right in watercolor: Lucien Powell; upper center verso in graphite: The Afterglow / Grand Canyon / Ariz.

Provenance

Washington Water Color Club, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1905; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington Water Color Club

Exhibition History

1905: 10th Annual Exhibition, Washington Water Color Club, Washington, DC, 1905

1924: Water Colors by Lucien W. Powell, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1924

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

2006: American Landscape: Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006

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. 97, no. 634.

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