Study for "White Mountains from North Conway, New Hampshire" [recto], 1851

Not on View

Medium

graphite with gouache on blue, ruled wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20 × 32.39 cm (7 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

Accession Number

2015.19.1023.a

Artists / Makers

David Johnson (artist) American, 1827 - 1908

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Conway Sept 29th 51 N.H.

Provenance

David Johnson Estate; Mrs. Roger S. Teachout; (James Graham & Sons, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1964; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Graham & Sons, James

Exhibition History

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

1988: Meditations on Nature: The Drawings of David Johnson, Hudson River Museum of Westchester, New York, 1988, p. 24, fig. 9, repro

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. 41, no. 289.