Details
THOMAS WATERMAN WOOD (1823-1903)
Not a Drop Too Much
signed Thomas Waterman Wood and dated 1878, l.l.--oil on canvas 20½ x 14½in. (52.4 x 36.8cm.)
Provenance
Thomas B. Clarke, New York
Sale: New York, American Art Galleries, Feb. 14-17, 1899, no. 204
F. Rockefeller, New York
Alexander Gallery, New York
Literature
"Fine Arts", New York Daily Tribune, May 27, 1878
E. Strahan, ed., The Art Treasures of America: Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America, 1879, vol. III, p. 126
H.B. Weinberg, "Thomas B. Clarke: Foremost Patron of American Art from 1872-1899", The American Art Journal, New York, May, 1976, p. 83
Exhibited
New York, Century Club, February, 1878 (as: Everyman his Own Doctor)
New York, National Academy of Design, 53rd Annual Exhibition, April-May 1878, no. 523
New York, Alexander Gallery, American Genre Paintings, Feb.-Mar., 1984, n.p., no. 15, illus. (as: The Tootache)