Boathouse at Coronado
Noel Quinn, American, 1915 - 1993
1953
Transparent watercolor on heavy wove Arches paper
Sight: 19 1/2 × 27 1/8 in. (49.5 × 68.9 cm)
Sheet: 22 5/8 × 30 1/2 in. (57.5 × 77.5 cm)
Frame: 29 15/16 × 37 1/2 × 1 3/16 in. (76.1 × 95.3 × 3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Philip H. Greene, in memory of his wife and co-collector, Marjorie B. Greene
2007.6.11
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left: Noël Quinn / 1953; inscribed, in ink, on reverse: PROPERTY OF THE ARTIST . . NOËL QUINN; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse: Quinn / Brugger; numbered, in black crayon, on reverse: 2 WATERMARK: : Embossed oval watermark: VERITABLE PAPER / FIN; also ARCHES / FRANCE
Exhibition History
California Style Watercolors from the Philip H. Greene Collection, Edward-Dean Museum of Decorative Arts, Benjamin J. and Mary A. Rabe Gallery, Cherry Valley, CA, June 2-July 31, 1996.
Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009.
Eighty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society, National Academy Galleries, New York, NY, February 25-March 15, 1954, no.86. Winner of the Ted Kautzky Memorial Award. Catalogue by WM Strosahl, Michael Shkymba, and Lois Fairbank, New York: Rothchild Printing Company, February, 1954, ill. p.26, no.86.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p. 54, no. 11.
American Artist, May 1963, p. 47.
Paul J. Karlstrom, The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, American Art Review, Volume XX, Number 6, Leawood, Kansas: American Arts Media, Inc., November-December, 2008, ill. p. 129.
Provenance
Mrs. Helen Quinn, Los Angeles, California; sold to Philip H. Greene (1925-2014), April 20, 1995; given to present collection, 2007.
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