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Artist
Edwin Howland Blashfield
(American, 1848 - 1936)
Date1882
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 19 1/2 x 43 1/2 in. (49.5 x 110.5 cm)
Frame (estimated): 23 x 56 x 4 in. (58.4 x 142.2 x 10.2 cm)
Frame (estimated): 23 x 56 x 4 in. (58.4 x 142.2 x 10.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of David and Myrna Leven
Object number2017.188
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
On viewCentury
- Nineteenth
Signedbottom right: E H Blashfield
Exhibition HistoryInaugural installation: 19th Century American Galleries (110), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present
Thomas B. Clarke Collection of American Pictures, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, October 15–November 28, 1891
The Private Collection of Thomas B. Clarke of New York, American Art Gallery, New York, December 28, 1883–January 12, 1884Published ReferencesH. Barbara Weinberg, "Thomas B. Clarke: Foremost Patron of American Art from 1872 to 1899," American Art Journal 8, no. 1 (May 1976): 71.
Catalogue of the Thomas B. Clarke Collection of American Pictures (exh. cat.) (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1891), 15–16 (no. 16).
The Private Collection of Thomas B. Clarke of New York (exh. cat.) (New York: American Art Gallery, 1883), 23 (no. 10).
Sigma, "Art in Philadelphia: Exhibitions of the Society of Artists and the Society of Etchers," The Art Amateur 8, no. 3 (February 1883): 60.