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William Trost Richards

The Bell Buoy, 1894

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Medium

watercolor with white highlights over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 33.02 × 60.64 cm (13 × 23 7/8 in.)

sheet: 39.69 × 66.68 cm (15 5/8 × 26 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Charles C. Glover, Jr.)

Accession Number

2015.19.944

Artists / Makers

William Trost Richards (artist) American, 1833 - 1905

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black watercolor: Wm. T. Richards. 94.

Provenance

Charles C. Glover, Jr., Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Glover, Charles C. Jr.

Exhibition History

1977: Changing Prospects, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977-1978

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

1986: American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988

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. 73, no. 458.

1986: Nygren, Edward J. and Linda Crocker Simmons. American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1986: no. 20.

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