Fisherman's Cottage

1. The artist. Byron Laflin Smith (1853-1914), Chicago, 1914 [Bjerke, 1995]; by descent within the family, to Edward Byron Smith (1909-2002), Lake Forest, IL, by 1984 [Nasgaard, 1984]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 20, 2000.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Venice, VII. Esposizione internazionale d'arte della Città di Venezia, Norwegian room, Apr.22, 1907–Oct. 31, 1907, cat. 42, as Casa sulla costa del mare.
• New York, American Art Galleries, Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, Dec. 10-25, 1912, cat. 155; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Jan. 4-Jan. 26, 1913; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 25-Mar. 16, 1913; Toledo and Boston, 1913.
• San Francisco, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Norwegian section, Feb. 20–Dec. 4, 1915, no. 275D, as Fisherman’s Hut.
• Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America, 1890-1940, Jan. 13–Mar. 11, 1984, cat. 109; Cincinnati Art Museum, Mar. 31- May 13, 1984.
• New York, National Academy of Design, Edvard Munch/Harald Solhberg: Landscapes of the Mind, Oct. 12–Jan. 14, 1996, cat. 103.
• San Francisco, de Young Museum, Jewel City: Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Oct. 17, 2015–Jan. 10, 2016.
• Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, Harald Sohlberg: Infinite Landscapes, Sept. 27, 2018–Jan. 13, 2019; London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Feb. 13–June 2, 2019.
• Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Northern Lights, Jan. 26-May 25, 2025, no cat. no.; Buffalo, NY, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Aug. 1, 2025-Jan. 12, 2026, as A House by the Coast (Fisherman's Cottage).

• Filippo Grimani, VII. Esposizione internazionale d'arte della Città di Venezia, exh. cat. (Venice: C. Ferrari, 1907), 37, cat. 42 as Casa sulla costa del mare.
• Christian Brinton, Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, exh cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 118, cat. 155.
• John E.D. Trask, Catalogue de Luxe of the Department of Fine Arts Panama-Pacific International Exposition, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company Publishers, 1915), 278, cat. 275D, as Fisherman’s Hut.
• Roald Nasgaard, The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940, exh. cat. (Toronto: The Art Gallery of Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1984), 113, 114, fig. 74, 115 (ill.), n.p. cat. 109.
• Øivind Storm Bjerke, Edvard Munch, Harald Sohlberg: Landscapes of the Mind, exh. cat. (New York: National Academy of Design, 1995), 70, 109, 118, cat. 103 as Fisherman's Cottage, 1907, 217.
• Götz Czymmek and Hans Henrik Brummer, Landschaft als Kosmos der Seele: Malerei des nordischen Symbolismus bis Munch 1880-1910 (Heidelberg: Braus, 1998), 64, fig. 5 (ill.), as Daus Haus des Fischers.
• James A. Ganz, Emma Acker, Laura A. Ackley, Heidi Applegate, Gergely Barki, Karin Breuer, Melissa E Buron, Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2015), 26, 37-38, n. 100, 365, pl. 162 (color ill.), 399.
• Marianne Yvenes, ed., Harald Sohlberg: Infinite Landscapes, exh. cat. (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2018), 17, 162, fig. 97 (color ill.), 221, cat. 45, 236 (color ill.).
• Angela Lampe, Katerina Atanassova, Anne-Maria Pennonen, and Helga Christoffersen, Ulf Küster, ed., Northern Lights, exh. cat. (Riehan/Basel: Fondation Beyeler; Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, 2025), 12-13 (color ill.), 108, 109 (color ill.), 228, 236, as A House by the Coast (Fisherman's Cottage).
• James Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 86 (color ill.).

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