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Snow on the Cow Path

Charles Culver American, 1908 - 1967
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About the Artwork

Snow on the Cow Path

1941

Charles Culver

1908 - 1967

American

Unknown

India ink and watercolor over graphite on white wove paper

Sheet: 13 1/2 × 19 5/8 inches (34.3 × 49.8 cm) Framed: 20 1/8 × 26 1/2 × 1 5/8 inches (51.1 × 67.3 × 4.1 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Bequest of John S. Newberry

65.193

Non-commercial all standard museum

Markings

Signed and dated, in pen and black ink, center left: C. Culver 1941

Inscribed, in brush and black pigment, upper center through mid-center, verso: Snow on the Cow Path | done near Clawson Michigan | Jan 1941 | Charles Culver | 1027 Leroy Ave. | Ferndale, Mich. Inscribed, in blue pencil, left center, verso: 3 [circled] - IP 42/11 Inscribed, in pencil, upper & lower right, upper & lower left, written upside down, verso: C. P. Rough

Stamp, paper manufacturer's stamp, in red ink, upper left, verso, vertically: WH[illegible]AN - Perfect Quality | [illegible]ADE-MARK IS YOUR GUARANTEE | [illegible]N Label, affixed lower right: [DIA paper label]

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1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 27.

Orear, Gordon and Elizabeth. Charles Culver : watercolors : landscape, animalia, paraphrase, 2008, p. 22 (pl. 2).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Charles Culver, Snow on the Cow Path, 1941, india ink and watercolor over graphite on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.193.

Snow on the Cow Path
Snow on the Cow Path