Obed Varney, Age 24
Joseph H. Davis, American, 1811 - 1865
1835
Opaque and transparent watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Sheet: 12 3/16 × 9 in. (31 × 22.9 cm)
Frame: 16 1/4 × 12 1/4 in. (41.2 × 31.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Nancy D. and Lane Woodworth Goss, Class of 1955
W.997.52
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in ink, bottom left to right: Obed Varney. Born April 20th. 1811. Painted at the Age of 24. 1835.
Exhibition History
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, July 16, 2015.
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.
Reunion display, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Elevator vestibule, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1-October 2, 2005.
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. 231.
Provenance
Merican & Peskin Gallery, New York, New York; sold to Nancy and Lane Woodworth Goss, January 2, 1986; given to present collection, 1997.
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