Beach Scene
William Trost Richards, American, 1833 - 1905
about 1870
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on tan wove paper
Sheet: 6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Partial purchase through gifts from Richard and Diana Beattie and partial gift of Theodore R. and Ellen P. Conant
W.997.11
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed or dated; numbered, in graphite, on reverse: HS9 [dealer's inventory number?]
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 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.
Watercolors by William Trost Richards, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, no. 7, March 14-April 15, 1989.
Publication History
Watercolors by William Trost Richards, New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., March 14-April 15, 1989, no. 7, color illus. p. 15.
The Magazine Antiques, Berry-Hill advertisment, March 1989.
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, 41, 96, 255, ill. p. 42, fig. 44, 97, no. 21.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 135, no. 107.
Provenance
The artist; to his son, Theodore William Richards (1868-1928); to his daughter, Grace Thayer Richards Conant (1898-1985); to her son and daughter-in-law, Ellen P. and Theodore Richards Conant (1926-2015); consigned to Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, about 1989-1996; returned to Ellen P. and Theodore Richards Conant, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1996; partial gift/purchase to present collection, 1997.
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