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On Columbia Heights

Isabel Lydia Whitney

American Art

MEDIUM Oil on canvas
DATES 1927-1928
DIMENSIONS 18 x 24 1/4 x 7/8 in. (45.7 x 61.6 x 2.2 cm) frame: 22 × 27 × 2 in. (55.9 × 68.6 × 5.1 cm)
SIGNATURE Signed lower right, grey paint: "Isabel Whitney"
INSCRIPTIONS In pencil, bottom tacking edge: "I L Whitney"
COLLECTIONS American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 54.26
CREDIT LINE Gift of Mrs. James H. Hayes
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Brooklyn Heights circa 1927. Victorian iron three-tiered fountain playing in very early spring. Misty view of Manhattan, with smoke stack of the ill-fated steamer "Vestris" seen beyond roofs of old red warehouses.
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
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