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Landscape
Artist
Alvan Fisher
(American 1792–1863)
Date1862
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchased with funds provided by the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art
Object number77.2
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Nineteenth
Signedbottom right
Exhibition HistoryA Survey of American Art, 1815–1980, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA, August 26–September 23, 1984
Alvin Fisher, 1792–1863: American Pioneer in Landscape and Genre, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT, November 5, 1962–January 30, 1963; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 28–April 7, 1963ProvenanceRobert C. Vose, Jr.Published ReferencesLeo G. Mazow, "Robert Walter Weir and the Sense of Place," in The Weir Family, 1820–1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art, ed. Marian Wardle (exh. cat.) (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2011), 31 (fig. 2.4).
A Survey of American Art, 1815–1980 (brochure) (Wilkes-Barre, PA: Sordoni Art Gallery, 1984), n.p. (no. 7).
The Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 27, no. 4 (October 1962).