The Champ

Dorothy Varian, American, 1895 - 1985

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1938

Opaque and transparent watercolor and graphite on heavy wove paper

Sheet: 14 1/16 × 18 1/8 in. (35.7 × 46.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Victor Borella, Class of 1930

W.976.234

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.

Publication History

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. 248.

Provenance

The Downtown Gallery, New York [label]; collection of Nelson Rockefeller, New York; given to Victor Gaspar Borella [1906-1975, Class of 1930; Nelson Rockefeller's Dartmouth classmate and business associate]; given to present collection from the Estate of Victor G. Borella, Enfield, New Hampshire [arranged by his brother-in-law Ex-New Hampshire Governor Lane Dwinell, Class of 1928], 1976.

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