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Edmund Clarence Messer

1890

Benoni Irwin

Artist, American, 1840 - 1896

Benoni Irwin

Attributed to

Medium

pastel on prepared linen mounted to paperboard
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Edmund Clarence Messer)
Dimensions

sheet: 75.41 × 63.5 cm (29 11/16 × 25 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.294

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. Edmund Clarence Messer, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1918; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

Artists and Their Circles, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978

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. 86, no. 545.

Inscriptions

lower left in pastel: Benoni Irwin / 90

Wikidata ID

Q64537258

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