Coaching in New England
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Object Label
The Brooklyn Museum’s collection of American watercolors was begun in 1906, when this work was acquired in a bequest from the Brooklyn collector Caroline H. Polhemus. Coaching in New England was the work of Albert Fitch Bellows, a practitioner and promoter of watercolor beginning in the late 1860s. To demonstrate that watercolor was as significant and as durable as oil painting, he deliberately produced large and highly finished “exhibition watercolors.” This quaint New England subject was among the most praised works in the 1877 annual exhibition of the American Watercolor Society.
Caption
Albert Fitch Bellows (American, 1829–1883). Coaching in New England, ca. 1876. Watercolor and opaque watercolor with selectively applied glaze over graphite on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper, 24 7/8 x 35 7/8 in. (63.2 x 91.1cm) Frame: 29 5/8 x 40 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (75.2 x 102.9 x 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Caroline H. Polhemus, 06.334. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Coaching in New England
Date
ca. 1876
Geography
Place made: United States
Medium
Watercolor and opaque watercolor with selectively applied glaze over graphite on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
24 7/8 x 35 7/8 in. (63.2 x 91.1cm) Frame: 29 5/8 x 40 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (75.2 x 102.9 x 6.4 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left: "A. F. Bellows"
Credit Line
Bequest of Caroline H. Polhemus
Accession Number
06.334
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