Stained Glass by Harvey Maitland Watts, Part II

Stained Glass by Harvey Maitland Watts, Part II
Stained Glass by Harvey Maitland Watts, Part II

Stained Glass by Harvey Maitland Watts, Part II

Datec. 1911
Artist (American artist, 1875–1954)
MediumWatercolor and pastel on paper mounted to board
Dimensionscomposition: 17 × 10 3/4 in. (43.2 × 27.3 cm)
sheet: 21 × 13 1/2 in. (53.3 × 34.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2018
Object number2018-24
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextMarianna Sloan's painting evokes the accompanying poem's description of a winter sunset. In magazines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, poems were often published with decorative surrounds. This may have been intended as such a design. The poet, Harvey Maitland Watts, was a journalist who served as Managing Editor of the Philadelphia Press.