Figure and Flowers

Artist Hilda Belcher (American, 1881 - 1963)

Date1940/1945

DimensionsImage: H 12 x W 10 1/4 in. (H 30.5 x W 26 cm)
Paper: H 12 5/8 x W 11 1/2 in. (H 32.1 x W 29.2 cm)
Mat: H 20 x W 16 in. (H 50.8 x W 40.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Dr. Donald M. Dougall, 1954

Object number54.197

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Not on view

Object NameWatercolor | Painting

Title Details

Catalog Card Figure and Flowers

Remarks Catalog card: Assigned title

Descriptive Title Portrait of a Young Girl (Figure and Flowers)

Remarks Interoffice memorandum dated April 27, 1999, in object file

Artist title Negro Head with Yellow Flowers

Remarks Database list complied by the artist's decendent, Stephen Paterson Belcher, citing BB's (Barbara Belcher?) list as documentation.

Artist title "Negro Head" (Negro in Checked Shirt)

Remarks Reproduction rights document signed by the artist, in object file

Inscriptionsrecto: l.l., black paint: "Hilda Belcher"; l.r., graphite: "17218011"ProvenanceThe artist to her dentist, Dr. Donald Dougall, Maplewood, New Jersey, in return for services, circa 1945; bequest of Dr. Donald M. Dougall, Avon-By-The-Sea, New Jersey.Exhibition HistoryFleming Museum, Burlington, VT, 1945
Middlebury College, 1945
[Rutland, 1943, according to Stephen Belcher]

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