Hancock Shaker Village
Yvonne Twining Humber, American, 1907 - 2004
1936
Graphite on semi-transparent wove paper
Frame: 17 1/4 × 20 3/4 in. (43.8 × 52.7 cm)
Overall: 14 1/4 × 18 in. (36.2 × 45.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk
2011.63.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, on portion of paper that has been folded over the thicker support and is visible from the reverse: Yvonne Twining / Hancock Shaker Village - 1936
Publication History
William D. Moore, Shaker Fever: America's Twentieth-Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect, Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020, pp. 107-109, ill. p. 109, fig. 2.20.
Provenance
Martin-Zambito Fine Art, Seattle, Washington; sold to John Kirk, 1999; collection of Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 2011.
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