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Sunbeams

Artist Harold Broadfield Warren (American, 1859–1934)
Title Sunbeams
Date 1905
Medium Watercolor on paper
Dimensions Image: 14 3/16 × 19 15/16 in. (36 × 50.6 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 19 15/16 in. (36 × 50.6 cm)
Framed: 16 7/8 × 22 7/8 × 7/8 in. (42.9 × 58.1 × 2.2 cm)
Credit Line Morton and Marie Bradley Memorial Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 2003.60

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Born in Manchester, England, Harold Broadfield Warren moved to the United States in 1876, and settled in Boston. From the mid-1880s he traveled extensively in Italy, Greece, England, and the Canadian Rockies. Influenced by the English aesthetician John Ruskin, Warren produced meticulous watercolors during his travels, carefully recording architecture and landscapes. He taught architectural drawing at Harvard from 1904 to 1930. Although the exact location of this scene was not specified by the artist, it is believed to depict Dorset, Vermont. That same year, a critic in American Art News (March 11, 1905) noted that "No other painter of New England excels Mr. Warren in depicting the rugged, homely northern country, and its light and atmosphere."


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