The Great Blizzard of 1899, 1899

Not on View

Medium

gouache with watercolor and charcoal on gray wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 45.4 × 73.98 cm (17 7/8 × 29 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.265

Artists / Makers

Walter Paris (artist) American, 1842 - 1906

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in watercolor: W. PARIS. (underlined) 1899

Provenance

the artist, Washington, DC; National Savings and Trust Company, Washington, DC, 1906; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1909; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Paris, Walter

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

1982: Washington on the Potomac, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1982, Washington, DC, p. 9

1983: The Capital Image: Painting and Painters in Washington, 1800-1915, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1983-1984, p. 200

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, pp. 40-42, no. 21, repro

1991: City of Magnificent Distances: The Nation's Capital, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1991-1992

Bibliography

1976: "The American City: A Gathering of Turn-of-the-Century Paintings." American Heritage 27, no. 3 (April 1976): pp. 34-35.

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. 96, no. 624.