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New England Scenery

Thomas Cole · 1839

Provenance

Ownership history

Thomas Cole, from 1839; W.F. Ladd, New York, around 1841; Charles Baker, New York, by 1853; Samuel Nickerson, Chicago, 1876; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1900.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Boston Athenaeum, Fourteenth Exhibition of Paintings, Jun–?, 1840, cat. 35, as “Sunrise. A New England Scene.”
New York City, Apollo Association, Granite Building, Eighth Exhibition, Oct. 5–Dec. ?, 1841, cat. 46, as “Landscape—New England Scenery.”
New York City, Gallery of the American Art–Union, The Washington Exhibition in Aid of the New York Gallery of the Fine Arts, Mar–May 1, 1853, cat. 110.
Chicago, Art–Hall, Exposition Building, The Inter–State Industrial Exposition, Sept. 7–Oct. 9, 1876, cat. 361, as “Landscape.”
Chicago, Industrial Service Center, Y.W.C.A., Sept. 19, 1924–June 3, 1927, extended loan,as “Ideal Mountains.”
Chicago, George Williams College (formerly Y.M.C.A. College), Nov. 19, 1931–Nov. 7, 1940, extended loan, as “Landscape.”
Hudson River Exhibition, Feb. 15–Mar. 25, 1945.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Nineteenth Century American Masters, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, cat. 12.
Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, Thomas Cole 1801–1848: One Hundred Years Later, Nov. 12, 1948–Jan. 2, 1949, cat. 155, as Niagara Falls; New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan. 8–30, 1949.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950">Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Arts Club of Chicago, The American Landscape, Nov. 14–Dec. 29, 1973, cat. 4.
Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697–1901, Sept. 21–Nov. 24, 1985; Buffalo, Knox Art Gallery, July 13–Sept. 1, 1985, Corcoran Gallery of Art, New–York Historical Society, Jan. 22–Apr. 27, 1986.

Literature

Published references

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson: Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago, February, 1900, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1900), 7, cat. 13, as Landscape, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556005584180">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556005584180</a>.
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), 116–17, fig. 22.

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