Mural ("...Fill the Bowl...") Illustrating Richard Hovey's Song "Eleazar Wheelock" (Title and Chorus, panel 7)

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed, upper center: Poem / by / Richard / Hovey / 18D85 / "Eleazar" / Paint / by / Walter / Humphrey / 19D14; inscribed, lower right to left: "Fill the Bowl / Fill the Bowl / And Drink to Eleazar / And his primitive Alcazar, Where he mixed Drinks for the Heathen in the / Goodness of / his Soul"

Course History

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2014

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2014

LATS 7.02, Latinxs in Media & Arts, Douglas Moody, Winter 2020

SPAN 7.02, Mural Art in Mexico and U.S, Douglas Moody, Spring 2020

WRIT 2.05, Composition and Research I, Douglas Moody, Fall 2020

HIST 63.02, Material Culture of Science, Whitney Barlow Robles, Spring 2021

WRIT 3, Composition and Research II, Doug Moody, Winter 2022

Writing Program 3.06, Composition and Research II, Doug Moody, Winter 2023

First Year Student Enrichment Program - Culture, Identity, and Belongings, Doug Moody, Summer 2023

Writing 2.06, The American Mosaic: Literature, Essays, and Memoirs from the Voices of the Subaltern, Doug Moody, Fall 2023

First Year Student Enrichment Program, Doug Moody, Summer 2024

Publication History

Dartmouth College Alumni Magazine

Rick Adams, College to uncover controversial murals, Vox, July 11-24, 1993, Vol. XII, # 1, front page, cont. on p. 4, ill. p. front page

Frederic J. Frommer, To Prompt Discussion of History, College Will Uncover Indian Murals, Valley News, Saturday, July 3, 1993, front page and p. 10, ill. p. 10.

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p.2, Fig.4.

Brian Kennedy, Editor, The Hovey Murals at Dartmouth College: Culture & Contexts; Hanover; Trustees of Dartmouth College; Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, p. ii (Hovey Grill); p. 32, figure 2.10 (detail, incorrectly labeled .3); p. 73, plate 7; p. 77, plate 10 (Diagram of the "Hovey Grill"), panel 4; p. 78, figure 4.1B (detail, incorrectly labeled .10); p. 99, figure 4.16 (detail, incorrectly labeled .10).

Provenance

Commissioned by Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1939.

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