Silver Night
Howard Norton Cook, American, 1901 - 1980
about 1950
Pastel on wove paper, laid down on particle board
Sheet: 22 1/16 × 17 1/4 in. (56 × 43.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
D.953.73
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite: lower center, HOWARD COOK; signed and inscribed, in ink, on original cardboard backing: HOWARD COOK / RANCHERS OF TAOS, NEW MEXICO; titled and inscribed, in black crayon, on original backing board: SILVER NIGHT [underscored] / THIS PASTEL IS NOT FIXED / TAPE GLASS WHEN SENDING; inscribed, in graphite, [not artist's hand], on original cardboard: Whittier Fund / Bought June 1953 / from Exhibition of Cook's Works / Carpenter Art Galleries.
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
Howard Cook, Carpenter Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1953.
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.
Provenance
The artist; sold to present collection, 1953.
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