Sunlight and Shadows

Artist Theodore Robinson (American, 1852 - 1896)

Date1896

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 56 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. (142.9 x 54.6 cm)

Credit LineAnonymous gift

Object number2001.17

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Nineteenth

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 19th/20th Century American Galleries (111), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present. Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, Christie's, New York, December 2, 1988. Theodore Robinson, Florence Lewison Gallery, New York, October 8–November 3, 1962; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, January 29–March 3, 1962. Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, November 1946–January 1947.ProvenanceEstate of the artist. Mrs. Agnes McCahill, unknown date of acquisition. Miss Frances Del Mar, New York, by 1946. Florence Lewison Gallery, New York, by 1962. Christie's, auctioned December 2, 1988 (Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, lot 205). Private collection, unknown date of acquisition, until 1991.Published ReferencesUndergraduate Study in Art History at Penn State, Department of Art History 2004–2005 (brochure) (University Park, PA: Penn State University, College of Arts and Architecture, 2004), cover (ill., color). Bernard Denvir, The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of Impressionism (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990), 189 (ill.). Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries (cat.) (New York: Christie's, 1988), 210 (no. 205), 211 (ill., color). Phoebe Pool, Impressionism (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967), 261 (ill., no. 203), 280 (no. 203). Florence Lewison, "Theodore Robinson and Claude Monet," Apollo Magazine (September 1963): 211 (pl. X). Florence Lewison, "Theodore Robinson: America's First Impressionist," American Artist 27, no. 2 (February 1963): 42 (ill.), 45, 72. Theodore Robinson (exh. cat.) (New York: Florence Lewison Gallery, 1962), cover (ill., color), n.p. (no. 1). John I. H. Baur, Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896 (exh. cat.) (New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1946), 76 (no. 221).