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The Catalpa Tree
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The Catalpa Tree

Artist (American, 1881 - 1963)
Date1940/1944
Geographic OriginSavannah, Georgia
MediumWatercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
DimensionsSheet: H 12 3/4 x W 11 1/8 in. (H 32.4 x W 28.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Dr. Donald M. Dougall, 1954
Object number54.198
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Object NameWatercolor | Painting
Title Details
Artist title The Catalpa Tree
Remarks Artist questionnaire on file
Descriptive Title Profile Head
Remarks catalogue card "assigned title"
Inscriptionsrecto: b.r.e., red watercolor: "Hilda Belcher"; b.l.e., graphite: "16 3/4 x 18 3/4". verso: u.c., black crayon: "B781-1".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 HistoryOne-Person Exhibition, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, 1945.
One-Person Exhibition, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 1945.
Watercolor Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1944.

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