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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.170
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
The Catskill Mountains
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1872
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311582

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
20.6 x 43.2 cm (8 1/8 x 17 in.)
framed: 42.9 x 64.1 x 6 cm (16 7/8 x 25 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso: Painted C. H. Moore, '72

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Carroll, Troy, NY; private collector, Greenwich, NY; Vose Galleries of Boston; sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1956.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.170
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kenneth Myers, The Catskills: Painters, Writers and Tourists in the Mountains 1820-1895, exh. cat., Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, NY, 1987), pp. 73, 167-171, pl. 113
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), p. 33
  • 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. 237, cat. no. 188, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

  • American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
  • The Catskills: Painters, Writers and Tourists in the Mountains 1820-1895, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, 02/28/1988 - 06/19/1988; Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, Rochester, 07/15/1988 - 10/16/1988; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, 11/20/1988 - 02/12/1989; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 02/26/1989 - 04/23/1989
  • Above the Clouds: Painters, Writers and Tourists in the Catskills, 1820-1880, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, 02/28/1988 - 06/19/1988; Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, Rochester, 07/05/1988 - 10/30/1988; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, 11/11/1988 - 02/12/1989; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 02/26/1989 - 04/23/1989

Verification Level

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