Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011906Catching a Tune
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left, in graphite: "W.S.M. Catching a tune-"; Written in pencil, upper center by artist: "Dark"; Written in pencil, center right, by artist: "The player / dark / brown / best"
Provenance
?–1946: Victor D. Spark [1898-1991], New York, NY, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH July 25, 1946–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985). American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Sidney Mount (American, 1807–1868)
- Date
- probably 1867
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10 x 15.4 cm (3 15/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Accession no.
- 1946.1704
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