Currently not on view
The Convent Garden,
ca. 1820 – 1850
American
x1958-55
Information
Title
The Convent Garden
Dates
ca. 1820 – 1850
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
35.9 x 48 cm. (14 1/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Duff Balken, Class of 1897
Object Number
x1958-55
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
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American provincial paintings, 1790-1877: from the collection of Edward Duff Balken: galleries E and F, January 9 through February 23, 1947, (Pittsburgh, PA: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 1947).
, cat. no. 25 -
American folk art: a collection of paintings presented in 1958 by Edward Duff Balken of the Class of 1897 to the Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1958).
, cat. no. 7 - "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 18, no. 1 (1959): p. 40-42., p. 40
- "Another generation's folk art: Edward Duff Balken and his collection of American provincial paintings and drawings: appendix I: an inventory of works from the home of Edward Duff Balken", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 29-30., p. 30
- Colleen Cowles Heslip and Charlotte Emans Moore, "Catalogue of the collection," in "A window into collecting American folk art: the Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 31-162., pp. 82–84, cat. no. 24 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 299, checklist no. 106
- Jane Katcher and Robert Shaw, The Instruction of Young Ladies: Artfrom Private Girls' Schools and Academies in Early America (Cooperstown: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016).
