DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Blue Squash; verso: Fish

19th-20th century

Artists

Margaret LaightonArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on heavy cream wove paper (recto and verso)

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

38.8 × 55.7 cm (15 1/4 × 21 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge Massachusetts, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

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