Object Timeline

1920

  • Work on this object began.

1930

  • Work on this object ended.

1958

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Aunt Mollie's Back Yard

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1925 and we acquired it in 1958. Its medium is brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Martin Birnbaum. It is credited Gift of Martin Birnbaum.

Its dimensions are

29.7 × 35.4 cm (11 11/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in graphite, lower left: "ANNE GOLDTHWAITE"

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "To Martin Birnbaum / from his friend / Anne Goldthwaite"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Aunt Mollie's Back Yard; USA; brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board; 29.7 × 35.4 cm (11 11/16 × 13 15/16 in.); Gift of Martin Birnbaum; 1958-154-8

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