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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.340
People
Worthington Whittredge, American (Springfield, OH 1820 - 1910 Summit, NJ)
Title
A Sheep Cote on Lake Albano
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1859
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/149321

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
29.7 x 38.1 cm (11 11/16 x 15 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: W. Whittredge
  • inscription: on verso: "A Sheep Cote on Lake Abano [sic]"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY, 1989; Alexander Gallery, New York, NY, 1998; purchased by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Boston, 1998; his gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. in honor of Dr. Sanford Gifford
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.340
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Rudolf G. Wunderlich, Worthington Whittredge 1820-1910, exh. cat., Kennedy Galleries, Inc. (New York, 1970), ill. p. 2
  • Anthony F. Janson, "The Paintings of Worthington Whittredge" (1975), Harvard University, pp. 58,134, 228, no. 2-45
  • Barbara J. Mitnick, Worthington Whittredge: Artist of the Hudson River School, exh. cat., Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences (Morristown, NJ, 1982), cat. 12, n.p.
  • American Portrait, Landscape, Seascape, Still Life, and Genre Paintings from 1770 to 1922, auct. cat. (New York, NY, 1983), cat. 21, ill.
  • Anthony F. Janson, Worthington Whittredge, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1989), p. 66-67, fig. 45
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 523-24, cat. 491, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Worthington Whittredge 1820-1910, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 03/10/1970 - 03/31/1970
  • Worthington Whittredge: Artist of the Hudson River School, Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, 03/10/1982 - 03/31/1982
  • American Portrait, Landscape, Seascape, Still Life and Genre Paintings from 1770 to 1922, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 11/01/1983 - 12/31/1983

Verification Level

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