Coaching in New England

Albert Fitch Bellows

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Object Label

The Brooklyn Museum’s collection of American watercolors was begun in 1906, when this work was acquired in a bequest from the Brooklyn collector Caroline H. Polhemus. Coaching in New England was the work of Albert Fitch Bellows, a practitioner and promoter of watercolor beginning in the late 1860s. To demonstrate that watercolor was as significant and as durable as oil painting, he deliberately produced large and highly finished “exhibition watercolors.” This quaint New England subject was among the most praised works in the 1877 annual exhibition of the American Watercolor Society.

Caption

Albert Fitch Bellows American, 1829–1883. Coaching in New England, ca. 1876. Watercolor and opaque watercolor with selectively applied glaze over graphite on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper, 24 7/8 x 35 7/8 in. (63.2 x 91.1cm) Frame: 29 5/8 x 40 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (75.2 x 102.9 x 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Caroline H. Polhemus, 06.334. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 06.334_SL1.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Coaching in New England

Date

ca. 1876

Geography

Place made: United States

Medium

Watercolor and opaque watercolor with selectively applied glaze over graphite on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper

Classification

Watercolor

Dimensions

24 7/8 x 35 7/8 in. (63.2 x 91.1cm) Frame: 29 5/8 x 40 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (75.2 x 102.9 x 6.4 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower left: "A. F. Bellows"

Credit Line

Bequest of Caroline H. Polhemus

Accession Number

06.334

Rights

No known copyright restrictions

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