Mexican Street Scene

Artist Hilda Belcher (American, 1881 - 1963)

Date1939

MediumWatercolor over graphite on board

DimensionsImage: H 12 3/8 x W 10 in. (H 31.4 x W 25.4 cm)
Paper: H 13 x W 10 in. (H 33 x W 25.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Dr. Donald M. Dougall; Bequest of Dr. Donald M. Dougall, 1954

Object number54.199

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Object NameWatercolor | Painting

Title Details

Catalog Card Mexican Street Scene

Remarks assigned title from accession card

Artist title "In the Plaza" (Mexican Street Scene)

Remarks Title provided on reproduction rights document signed by the artist, Hilda Belcher

Primary Title The Pink Shirt or In the Plaza

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

Inscriptionsrecto: u.l., graphite: "HILDA BELCHER"; l.c., graphite: "15 1/2 x 18 3/4"; inscription from old backing on file: "BELCHER".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 HistoryNew Brunswick, New Jersey, January 1941.
Fitzwilliam, Massachusetts, 1941 [source: Stephen Belcher].
Rutland, VT, 1943 [source: Stephen Belcher]

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