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"Moonrise" or "A Sandy Road"

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

ca. 1890

GUSN

GUSN-179862

Description

Landscape of a full moon centered over a small road curving up from the corner of the frame around a small birch tree. White houses in background. Gilt painted wood frame.

Details

Descriptive Terms

pastels (visual works)
paintings (visual works)
pastels (crayons)
paper (fiber product)
Painting

Inscription

"HDM" (handwritten)
WATERCOLOR CLUB / EXHIBITION / EIGHT ANNUAL EXHIBITION / POLAND SPRING GALLERY / MAINE STATE BUILDING / Title: A Sandy Road / Artist: Hermann Dudley Murphy / Address: Copley Hall Boston / Owner: Artist / where to return: Copley Hall Boston / Price, $50.00 / Artist: / Title / Price / Return To / STEDMAN & WILDER / STUART STREET -- BOSTON / BACK OF MUSEUM"
"THE PENNSYLVANIA ACAD / EMY OF THE FINE ARTS / 71ST ANNUAL EXHIBITION / 1902 / TO BE DETACHED AND / FIXED ON BACK OF WORK / TITLE: Moonrise / ARTIST: Hermann Dudley Murphy / ADDRESS: Copley Hall / RETURN ADDRESS: Boston"
"No...... / RETURN TO / W.S. BUDWORTH & SON / PACKERS and SHIPPERS, / 424 WEST 52nd STREET, / NEW YORK"

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

P261
FA132

Maker

Murphy, Hermann Dudley, 1867-1945 (Artist)

Location of Origin

United States

Dimensions

19 11/16 x 19 11/16 x 1 13/16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.684

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