Object details
Object number
P11e8
Creator(s)
Dodge MacKnight
(Providence, 1860 - 1950, Sandwich, Massachusetts)
Title
The Basin, Shelburne
Date
1910
Medium
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
38 x 55 cm (14 15/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (lower right): Dodge Macknight
Inscribed (on a Doll & Richards label, affixed to the frame): No. 23652
Provenance
Offered for sale at an exhibition of Dodge Macknight's White Mountains, Miscellaneous, and Cape Cod paintings at the gallery Doll & Richards, Boston from 15-27 April 1910. Unsold.
Gift from Dodge Macknight to Isabella Stewart Gardner after 27 April 1910.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1912), pp. 1-2. (one of the several watercolors by Macknight listed in the Blue Room)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 215.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 73-74.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 143, 144, ill.
Gallery
Macknight Room
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