View of the North River from the North West Corner of Fort Clinton—West Point
1837
Artist, American, 1808 - 1875
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
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Dimensions
sheet: 12.07 × 23.5 cm (4 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.578
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Anna J. Moebs, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Corocran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
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
Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979
1980
Hudson River Drawing, Falmouth Public Library, Massachusetts, 1980-1981
1981
Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981
1983
Images of the Land: 200 Years of Landscape Painting in the Northeastern United States, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 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. 7, no. 50.
Inscriptions
left edge in pen and brown ink: View on the North River from the North West Corner / of Fort Clinton - West Point; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 14 x 18
Wikidata ID
Q64630805