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Bridge and Village

Artist Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638 - 1709)
MediumPen and brown ink with gray wash
DimensionsOverall: 6 7/8 × 9 5/8 inches (17.46 × 24.45 cm)
Credit LineGift of Milton McGreevy
Object numberF59-64/4
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Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 27, as Bridge to the Village.

Provenance

Adolf Klein (1880–1951), Darmstadt, Frankfurt, and Alzey, Germany, by 1951 [1];

Purchased from Klein by the dealer Joseph Fach, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as attributed to Hobbema, Bridge in a Village, by 1951-September 20, 1959 [2];

Purchased from Fach by Milton McGreevy (1903–1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, September 20–November 10, 1959;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

NOTES:

[1] Klein was a dealer and collector. In 1905, he established his dealership in Darmstadt and started collecting drawings. He settled in Frankfort 1910, but after his shop was destroyed in 1944, he moved to his hometown of Alzey, where he lived until his death in 1951.

[2] See Joseph Fach invoice, September 20, 1959, NAMA Archives, MS007 Milton McGreevy records.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 27, as Bridge to the Village.

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