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Haystack: Belle-Île, Brittany

(American, 1860–1950)
about 1890
Medium/TechniqueTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite pencil on paper
DimensionsSheet: 39.4 x 40.4 cm (15 1/2 x 15 7/8 in.)
Framed: 57.2 x 57.8 cm (22 1/2 x 22 3/4 in.)
Credit LineBequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball
Accession number23.540
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsSigned upper left in red watercolor: Dodge Macknight
ProvenanceClara Bertram Kimball (b. 1838 - d. 1920), Boston; by inheritance to her husband, David P. Kimball (b. 1833 - d. 1923), Boston; 1923, bequest of David P. Kimball to the MFA [see note 1]. (Accession Date: November 1, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] In 1923 David P. Kimball bequeathed forty paintings to the MFA in memory of his wife, Clara Bertram Kimball. He noted in his will that these were "from the collection made by her and bequeathed to me."
Ethel Mars
1914
Ethel Mars
1940s
Girls on a Cliff
Winslow Homer
1881
An Artist in His Studio
James Wells Champney
about 1880–90
Canal Scene, Holland: The Green Mill
Charles Herbert Woodbury
1894
West Church, Boston
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1900–01
Winter Bouquet
Charles Burchfield
1933
Home by Moonlight
James Fitzgerald
1940–50
Gloucester Harbor
Winslow Homer
1880