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Flags, Beacon Street, Boston
Dodge Macknight (American, 1860–1950)
1918
Medium/Technique
Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 43.5 x 60.3 cm (17 1/8 x 23 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes, Edward Jackson Holmes Collection
Accession Number64.2114
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
DescriptionRecto: Flags (Boston); verso: Flower Border
InscriptionsSigned and dated lower left: Dodge Macknight (in red watercolor) / 1918 (in purple watercolor)/An inscription on the backing in Macknight's hand dedicated the painting to "my dear friends/Ned and Mary Holmes/with love." Unsigned.
ProvenanceEdward Jackson Holmes Collection; Mary Stacey Holmes (Mrs. Edward Jackson Homes, d. 1964), Topsfield, MA; bequest to MFA, December 9, 1964.