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Emil Bisttram, American (born Hungary), 1895 - 1976

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1932

Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on heavy wove paper

Sheet: 19 × 25 in. (48.3 × 63.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn Carter Giles

W.959.71.4

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower right: Emil Bisttram 33.

Course History

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

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

Exhibition History

Dynamic Symmetry, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, February 5-March 12, 1961; The Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire, March 22-April 19, 1961; The Carpenter Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 3-May 31, 1961, no. 50.

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.

Publication History

David G. Carter, Dynamic Symmetry, Providence: John F. Greene Co., 1961, no. 50.

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, ill. p. 228.

Provenance

Evelyn Carter (Mrs. Howard) Giles (1881-1965), South Woodstock, Vermont; given to present collection, 1959.

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