Head of a Woman
Mary Cassatt, American, 1844 - 1926
about 1901
Pastel on tan wove paper
Sheet: 15 9/16 × 11 3/4 in. (39.6 × 29.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ada and William Preston Harrison
D.940.55
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Course History
ARTH 7, Paris in the Nineteenth Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2013
SART 15, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2014
SART 15, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2019
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2021
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2021
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2021
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2021
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2021
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2021
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka - OPEN HOURS, Fall 2021
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka - OPEN HOURS, Fall 2021
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka - OPEN HOURS, Fall 2021
SART 15.03, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2022
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2022
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
19th Century American Drawings, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 27-October 31, 1976.
Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.
Drawings at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 27-November 27, 1988.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 230.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 34, ill. fig. 6.1.
Provenance
Ada Sanberg Harrison (1885-1947) and William Preston Harrison (1869-1940), Los Angeles, California; given to present collection, 1940.
Catalogue Raisonne
A. D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 281, no. 842.
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