South-West Point, Conanicut, 1878 / 1879

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache on fibrous blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 83.82 × 149.86 cm (33 × 59 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Riggs Parker, honoring their children

Accession Number

2023.32.1

Artists / Makers

William Trost Richards (artist) American, 1833 - 1905

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: at lower right, in black ink: Wm. T. Richards / 1879

Provenance

(Possibly Newman Galleries, Philadelphia); Erik Thune, Philadelphia [1893 – 1983]; by descent to his daughter, Emma Parker (née Thune), Chilmark, MA [1992 - 1997?]; J. B. Riggs Parker, her widower, Chilmark, MA; gift to the National Gallery of Art, 2023.

Associated Names

Parker, Emma Thune
Parker, Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Riggs
Thune, Erik

Exhibition History

1878: Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society, Galleries of the National Academy of Design, New York, 1878, no. 363, illustrated p. 7.

1878: Paris Universal Exposition, Paris, 1879, no. 138.

Bibliography

1980: Ferber, Linda S. William Trost Richards (1833-1905) : American Landscape and Marine Painter. New York, 1980: 286, 316, and fig. 236.

2017: Foster, Kathleen A. American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent. Philadelphia, 2017: 411, note 77.

2020: Shahi, Kimia R. "William Trost Richards's 'Real Drawing' and the Currency of Watercolor, ca. 1875 - 85" American Art 34 (2020): 69-70.

2024: Hoisington, Rena M. "Gifts and Acquisitions."Art for the Nation no. 68 (Spring 2024): 21, repro.