Untitled, page 6, from the portfolio, The Aurora: Arctic and Antarctic Studies
Frank Wilbert Stokes, American, 1858 - 1955
1913
Pastel on gray wove paper
Overall: 14 1/4 × 11 1/8 in. (36.2 × 28.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts from The Friends of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, the Institute on Canada and the Institute on the Arctic within the Dickey Endowment, and the Dartmouth College Library
D.989.1.6
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, and dated, in graphite, lower left: F.W.S./1913; additionally, each drawing is stamped in gold with the artist's seal [a penguin and polar bear] in the lower right margin; an additional unique figurative gold stamp appears just below the image, to the left.
Provenance
Arthur Curtiss James (1867-1941), Newport, Rhode Island; sold to George and Doris Hagerty, Glens Falls, New York, July 1944 (Estate Sale); sold to present collection, 1989.
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