Sixth Avenue "L"
Marguerite Thompson Zorach, American, 1887 - 1968
1924
Watercolor and graphite on heavy wove paper
Sheet: 22 5/16 × 15 9/16 in. (56.7 × 39.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
W.935.1.75
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right: Marguerite-Zorach / 1924
Course History
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012
SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Spring 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II/III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2014
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2016
SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
33 Moderns: The Downtown Gallery Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints by Thirty-three American Contemporary Artists, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, no. 122, 1930.
Marguerite Zorach: A Life in Art, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, New York, May 3-June 8, 2007.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Picturing New York: Images of the City, 1890-1955, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 82, March 31-June 21, 1992
Points of View, Art History 2, ARTH 2, Winter 2016, Joy Kenseth and Mary Coffey, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1-March 13, 2016.
The Expanding Grid, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-August 27, 2012.
Publication History
Barbara MacAdam, "Picturing New York: Images of the City,1890-1955", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1992, no.82.
Annette Carroll Compton, Drawing From the Mind Painting From the Heart, 1st ed., New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, a division of VNU Business Media, Inc., 2002, 144 pp., ill. p. 122.
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, pp. 23, 148, 264, ill. p. 149, no. 44.
Valerie Ann Leeds (essay), Marguerite Zorach: A Life in Art, New York, NY: Gerald Peters Gallery, 2007, ill.p.39, plate no.14
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, American Art Review, Vol. XVII No. 2, April 2005, pp. 86-93, ill p. 92
Provenance
The artist; consigned to Downtown Gallery, New York, January 1930; consigned to Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, January 1930; sold to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, January 1930; given to present collection, 1935.
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