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Artist Theodore Robinson (American, 1852 - 1896)

Datec. 1885

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 20 x 16 1/8 in. (50.8 x 41 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.103

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Nineteenth

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Signedbottom right: TH ROBINSON [illegible]

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 19th/20th Century American Galleries, Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024 - present; An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005; Continuity and Diversity in American Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Kennedy Galleries, New York, April 10–May 31, 1984; Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896, Baltimore Museum of Art and traveling, May 1–June 10, 1973; Theodore Robinson, The 19th Century Vermont Impressionist, Southern Vermont Artists, Manchester, Vt., July 17–August 1, 1971; Impressionism in America, University of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque, February 9–March 14, 1965; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, March 30–May 5, 1965; Theodore Robinson, Florence Lewison Gallery, New York, October 8–November 3, 1962; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, N.Y., January 29–March 3, 1963; Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896, Brooklyn Museum, New York, November 12, 1946–January 5, 1947ProvenanceMrs. Agnes McCahill Miss Frances Del Mar, New York, by 1946 Mrs. Paul Blackwelder, St. Louis Florence Lewison Gallery, New York, by late 1963 Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Glickman, New York, by 1973 Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York Acquired in 1984 from Kennedy Galleries, New YorkPublished ReferencesBaur, John I. H., Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896 (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1946), 73 (no. 182). Continuity and Diversity in American Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1984), n.p. (ill., color, no. 27). Impressionism in America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Art Gallery, 1965), 47 (ill., no. 47). Johnston, Sona, Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896 (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973), 11 (ill., no. 10). Lewison, Florence, “Theodore Robinson: America’s First Impressionist,” American Artist 27 (February 1963): 44 (ill.), 72. Lewison, Florence, “Theodore Robinson and Claude Monet,” Apollo 78 (September 1963): 210 (ill., fig. 3). Lewison, Florence, Theodore Robinson, The 19th Century Vermont Impressionist (Manchester, Vt.: Southern Vermont Artists, 1971), n.p. (no. 13). Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 14, 15, 201 (ill. 14, 201). Theodore Robinson (New York: Florence Lewison Gallery, 1962), n.p. (no. 9). Theodore Robinson, American Impressionist, exh. cat. (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1966), 11.