Bar-room Scene

1. Gouverneur Kemble, Cold Spring, N.Y., 1835. Ehrich Galleries, New York, by 1911; William Owen and Erna Sawyer Goodman, Chicago, 1911; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1939.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, National Academy of Design (May–?), Tenth Annual Exhibition, no. 141.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Friends of American Art, Loan Exhibition of American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 8–28, 1914, no. 49, as The Breakdown.
• Brooklyn Museum, Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by William Sidney Mount: 1807–1868, Jan. 23–Mar. 8, 1942, no. 40, ill. as The Breakdown.
• New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William Sidney Mount and His Circle, Jan. 31–?, 1945, no. 11 as The Breakdown.
• Long Island, New York, The Suffolk Museum at Stony Brook, The Mount Brothers (Aug. 23–Sept. 28, 1947, no. 67, p. 44, ill. p. 28 as The Breakdown.
• WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Nineteenth Century American Masters</em>, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no. 34, as <em>The Breakdown</em>.
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Rediscoveries in American Painting, Oct. 3–Nov. 6, 1955, no. 63 and p. 14 as The Breakdown.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Narrative Painting, 1974, no. 24, ill. p. 62 as The Breakdown.
• William Sydney Mount: American Genre Painter Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Feb. 5–May 4, 1999.

• “The Fine Arts,” The Knickerbocker, June 1835, 550–556, no. 141, 554.
• The American Cyclopedia, A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Vol. XII (D. Appleton and Co., 1883), 7–8.
• Alfred Frankenstein, William Sidney Mount (Abrams, Inc., 1975).
• Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University Exhibition, October 3–November 28, 1976, 108, no. 109, (not included in exhibition history).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1988), 81, ill.
• Marvin D. Schwartz, “The Art Institute’s New Wing,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly, November 4, 1988, 1, 60–62, ill. p. 60.
• Benjamin Nelson Pftingstag, Aspects of Form and Time in the Paintings of Willliam Sidney Mount (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1980), Ph.D. diss., 92, 119–122; mentioned under an earlier title: The Breakdown.
• Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).