Building The Cofferdam by Walter Elmer Schofield
Art Institute of Chicago

Building The Cofferdam

Walter Elmer Schofield · c. 1914

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, Philadelphia; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1914; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1914.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4621/american-oil-paintings-and-sculpture-27th-annual"><em>Twenty–Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture</em></a>, Nov. 3–Dec. 6, 1914, cat. 278.
  • New York, National Academy of Design, <em>Eighty-Ninth Annual Exhibition</em>, Dec. 19, 1914–Jan. 17, 1915, cat. 291.
  • Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5706/garfield-park-art-galleries-exhibition-of-greek-sculptures-and-american-paintings"><em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em></a>, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936, cat. 18.
  • Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, <em>The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism</em>, Sept. 16–Nov. 25, 1984, cat. 2; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dec. 14, 1984–Feb. 10, 1985; Greensburg, PA, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Mar. 2–May 5, 1985; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, June 1–Sept. 2, 1985.

Literature

Published references

  • <em>Catalogue of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), n.p., cat. 278.
  • National Academy of Design, <em>Eighty-Ninth Annual Exhibition</em>, exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1914), cat. 291.
  • “Friends of American Art,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 9, no. 1 (Jan. 1, 1915): 3, 11–12 (ill.), as <em>Building the Coffer-Dam</em>, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4102690">http://www.jstor.org/stable/4102690</a>.
  • <em>Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1914–1915</em>, 5th ed. (1916), 22, as <em>Building the Coffer-Dam</em>.
  • <em>Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1916–1918</em>, 6th ed. (1918), 11.
  • Robert J. Dunham, <em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Chicago Park District, 1935), n.p., cat. 18.
  • Donelson F. Hoopes, <em>The American Imrpessionists</em>, (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1972), 138 (ill.).
  • Thomas Folk, <em>The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism</em>, exh. cat. (Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1984), cat. 2.
  • James D. W. Church, et al., <em>Schofield: International Impresssionist</em>, exh. cat. (Woodmere Art Museum, 2014), 104 (ill.).

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