The First Snowfall, c. 1877-1887

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and pastel on gray wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 31.59 × 48.26 cm (12 7/16 × 19 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Arthur B. Davies, wife of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.322

Artists / Makers

Arthur B. Davies (artist) American, 1862 - 1928

Image Use

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Provenance

the artist, New York; Mrs. Arthur B. (Virginia Meriwether) Davies, New York, 1928; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1930; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Davies, Arthur B.

Exhibition History

1978: American Pastels from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 124, no. 834.