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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.715
People
William Louis Sonntag, American (E. Liberty, PA 1822 - 1900 New York, NY)
Title
On the Shenandoah
Other Titles
Former Title: Scene in the Shenandoah
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1855-1860
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231449

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
43.2 x 71.1 cm (17 x 28 in.)
framed: 50.2 x 76.8 x 1.9 cm (19 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: W. L. Sonntag

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by William Hayes Fogg, New York; his bequest to his wife, Mrs. William Hayes Fogg, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.715
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, William Louis Sonntag: Artist of the Ideal 1822-1900, Goldfield Galleries (Los Angeles, CA, 1980), p. 113,no. 216, ill.
  • Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 12, cat. 70
  • Kimberly Orcutt, "Personal Collecting Meets Institutional Vision: The Origins of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum", Journal of the History of Collections (2006), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 267-284, p. 274
  • 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), p. 439, cat. 400, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Inauguration Ceremonies exhibit, Cambridge Mayor's Office, Cambridge, 12/29/1993 - 01/03/1994
  • American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994

Verification Level

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