Lake Scenery
John Henry Hill, American, 1839 - 1922
1866
Watercolor over graphite indications on wove paper
Sheet: 10 9/16 × 15 5/16 in. (26.8 × 38.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
W.957.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: J. Henry Hill 1866
Course History
WRIT 7, Religion and Literature: Revisioning the Invisible, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven: Artists in the White Mountains, 1830-1930, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 29, September 10-October 30, 1988.
From Copley to Dove: American Drawings and Watercolors at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), March 11-May 28, 1989.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 5-July 15, 2001.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-present.
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.
Mirrors of the Soul: Reflections on the Lakes Region, Belknap Mill Society, Mill Plaza, Laconia, New Hampshire, (no cat.), June 5-30, 1988.
Nineteenth-Century Landscape Paintings of the White Mountains, The White Mountain School, St. Mary's-in-the-Mountains, Littleton, New Hampshire, (no cat.), September 22-26, 1976.
Painting in the White Mountains, 1820-1900: The Bicentennial of Tamworth, New Hampshire, 1766-1966, Tamworth Bicentennial Art Exhibit, Tamworth, New Hampshire, (no cat. no.), August 4-15, 1966.
The New England Image: Nineteenth-Century Landscapes from the College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 17, May 14-September 26, 1982.
Publication History
Robert L. McGrath and Barbara J. MacAdam, A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven: Artists in the White Mountains 1830-1930, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, p. 68, no. 29.
Glenna Waterman, The New England Image: 19th Century Landscapes from the College Collection, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1982, p. 44-45, no. 27.
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. 20, 94, 255, ill. p. 95, no. 20.
Provenance
Raymond G. Clifton (1895-1968), Pine Cupboard Antique Shop, Franklin, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1957.
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