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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.179
People
Alexander Helwig Wyant, American (Evans Creek, OH 1836 - 1892 New York, NY)
Title
Landscape near Arkville
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1889
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230453

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51.4 x 76.8 cm (20 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.)
framed: 71.1 x 96.5 x 7.6 cm (28 x 38 x 3 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: A. H. Wyant
  • label: Labels on stretcher: G.W. Selleck/Mover and Packer/of Works of Art./131 West 17th [handwritten], New York; partial label: Pictures in oil a[nd wate]r colors/The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences/Brooklyn Museum/Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue [bottom covered by cardboard strainer].

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by Louis Marshall; sold through Martin Birnbaum to Grenville L.Winthrop, October 2, 1942; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.179
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 23
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 456, cat. no. 480, reproduced in color

Exhibition History

  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

Verification Level

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