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Title:Peggy Sketching from a Balcony
Artist:William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather (American (born Scotland), Edinburgh 1879–1969)
Date:1920
Medium:Watercolor and charcoal on paper
Dimensions:19 5/8 x 23 3/4 in. (49.8 x 60.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900
Accession Number:26.168.86
Inscription: Signed (lower right): William Starkweather
the artist, New York (1920–at least 1921); Archer M. Huntington, New York (until 1926; his gift to MMA)
New York. National Arts Club. "Fifty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the American Water Color Society," February 3–24, 1921, no. 249 (as "Peggy Sketching").
Art Institute of Chicago. "The Third International Water Color Exhibition," March 20–April 22, 1923, no. 302.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America," December 8, 1966–January 29, 1967, no. AWS 64.
New York. The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College. "William E. B. Starkweather: The Travel Pictures," September 15–October 31, 1988, unnumbered cat.
Hickory, N.C. Hickory Museum of Art. "Vantage Points: The Works of William Starkweather 1879–1969," April 16–June 25, 1989, unnumbered cat.
Wilmington, N.C. Cameron Art Museum. "Vantage Points: The Works of William Starkweather 1879–1969," July 6–August 20, 1989, unnumbered cat.
New York. Forbes Magazine Galleries. "American Heritage Winter Art Show," January 27–February 27, 1993, no catalogue.
Ralph Fabri. History of the American Watercolor Society: The First Hundred Years. [New York], 1969, ill. p. 69, no. AWS 64.
Anthony Panzera. William E. B. Starkweather: The Travel Pictures. Exh. cat., The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College. [New York], 1988, unpaginated.
Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. (American, Wilmington, North Carolina 1907–1994 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ca. 1941
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