Benjamin Ames Kimball (1833-1920), Class of 1854
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp, American, 1858 - 1923
about 1904
Oil on canvas
Overall: 44 1/2 × 39 1/2 in. (113 × 100.4 cm)
Frame: 45 1/8 × 41 1/8 in. (114.6 × 104.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Benjamin A. Kimball, Class of 1854
P.919.2.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on reverse, in black [crayon?]: B.A. Kimball / By J. DeCamp; inscribed, on central cross member of stretcher, in black [crayon?]: B.A. Kimball By J. DeCamp; inscribed, in graphite, on central cross member of stretcher: DeCamp; circular brass framer's label tacked to top center of frame reverse: FOSTER BROTHERS / MAKERS / BOSTON MASS.; branded into bottom center of frame reverse: 552 / 2059
Exhibition History
Exhibition of Portraits- Past and Present Members, Saint Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts, January 3-January 14, 1905, no. 109.
Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1, 1919.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2000-February 18, 2001.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 8, 2003-April 13, 2004.
Portraits by Joseph DeCamp, Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, Massachusetts, December 28, 1915-January 8, 1916, no. 11.
Ten American Painters, M. Knoedler and Company, New York, New York, March 15-March 27, 1915, no. 12.
Ten American Painters, Montross Gallery, New York, March 25-April 13, 1905, no. 4.
Ten American Painters, Montross Gallery, New York, New York, March 17-April 4, 1908, no.13.
Ten American Painters, Saint Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts, April 26-May 13, 1905, no. 4.
Publication History
Laurene Buckley, Joseph DeCamp: Master Painter of the Boston School, Munich and New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1995, p. 85-86, ill. p.85, fig. 52, also cited p. 98, notes 66, 67; pp 149, 150, 152, 154.
Ten American Painters, New York: Spanierman Gallery, 1990, pp. 96, 177, 179-180.
Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 24, no. 91.
Harlan C. Pearson, Benjamin Ames Kimball '54, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 13 (November 1920), p. 9.
Ten American Painters, New York Times, April 1, 1905, p. 11.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 78, no. 54.
James L. Garvin, Historical New Hampshire: Tuck's Gift, "New Hampshire's Temple of History", Volume 65, No. 2, New Hampshire Historical Society, ill. p. 105.
Provenance
Benjamin Ames Kimballl (1833-1920); given to present collection, 1919.
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