"Routining" the Fish (Rowling the Fish; Rolling the Fish)

Thomas Hart Benton, American, 1889 - 1975

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1943

Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Sheet: 13 7/8 × 16 5/8 in. (35.3 × 42.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert S. Engelman, Class of 1934

D.960.89.2

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in pen and ink, lower right: "Routining" the Fish' / #2; signed, in graphite, lower right: Benton; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: Torpedo in[?] drawer[?]

Course History

SART 20, 71, Drawing II, III, Tom Ferrara, Spring 2015

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2016

Exhibition History

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.

Points of View, Art History 2, ARTH 2, Winter 2016, Joy Kenseth and Mary Coffey, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1-March 13, 2016.

Thomas Hart Benton: Works on Paper, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April-June 2012.

Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 36 (as "Rowling the Fish No. 2), May 30-September 21, 1975.

Publication History

Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, pp. 51-52.

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, pp. 37, 182, 269, ill. p. 183, no. 60.

Provenance

Commissioned by Abbot Laboratories, Chicago, 1943; to Robert S. Engelman (1912-2002), Chicago, Illinois; given to present collection, 1960.

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