Masque
Artist
Louis Welden Hawkins(French, 1849–1910)French, 1849–1910
CultureFrench
Titles
- Masque
Datec. 1900
PlaceFrance
MediumBlack chalk and pencil on light brown paper
Dimensions17 × 9 3/8 in. (43.2 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2009.1493
Not on view
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Exhibition History"Le Symbolisme et la femme," Paris, Toulon and Pau, 1986, no. 28
"Louis Welden Hawkins," Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 1993, no.13b
"Circa 1900: Decorative Arts at the Turn of the Century," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Alice Pratt Brown Gallery, February 26-July 31, 2011.
Published References Gilles Almy, "Louis Welden Hawkins, peintre," unpublished MA thesis, 1983, p. 33, no. 63. Paris, Musee du Petit Palais, and elsewhere, "Le Symbolisme et la femme," 1986, p. 77, no. 28. Lucas Bonekamp, "Louis Welden Hawkins 1849-1910," exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam and Zwolle, 1993, pp. 46-48, no. 13b.
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