Collection Highlights
Siamese Twins
Date:
1836
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1836.55
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Sketchbook with 59 Folios, 10 blank
Object Number:
1935.173
Date:
1866
Medium:
Graphite and white chalk on off-white, brown, and green paper bound into a sketchbook
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 8 in. ( 12.7 x 20.3 cm )
Marks:
Inscribed: inside of front cover at upper right:"A. B. Durand / 91 Amity St./ New York", and the later address "South Orange, N.J."
Inscribed: inside front cover at center: "The work of / my Father. / Property of Lucy M. Durand Woodman"
Inscribed: ins
Inscriptions:
Inscribed on inner front cover at upper right in graphite: "A.B. Durand / 91 Amity… / New York"; at left: "South Orange / N.J."; at center: "The work of / my Father / ['Property of' by a later hand] Lucy M. Durand Woodman"
Gallery Label:
Durand filled this pocket sketchbook with careful studies of tree trunks, branches and boulders. He usually worked in an upright format, echoing the vertical thrust of his subjects and sometimes extending his drawing over both pages in order to capture all of the motifs that interested him.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Provenance:
Descent through the artist's family
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
