Blue Door
Daten. d.
MediumBody color, watercolor and gouache on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 12 7/8 × 9 5/8 inches (32.7 × 24.4 cm)
Framed: 22 1/2 × 19 3/8 × 1 1/8 inches (57.2 × 49.2 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Gari Melchers.
Object number1908.9
CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextGeorge Hitchcock was born into a patrician family in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from Brown University in 1872 and then attended Harvard Law School, practicing law for several years before deciding in 1879 to move to Europe to pursue a career in art. He worked and studied in London, Paris, The Hague, and Düsseldorf until 1883, when he settled in the Egmonds, a cluster of villages on the North Sea in Holland. There, he worked closely alongside artist Gari Melchers, who donated these two watercolors to the Telfair in 1908.
