Shipwreck near a Rocky Coast by Thomas Birch
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Shipwreck near a Rocky Coast

Thomas Birch · 1833

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, April 19–20, 1972, lot 29, as "Shipwreck" [illustrated in auction sales cat., p. 22]. J. N. Bartfield Art Galleries, New York; sold to J. Verne Hawn, Shreveport, LA [probably in 1970s, private correspondence, copy in curatorial object file]. Consigned to Richard York Gallery, New York, by April 1981 [illustrated in "Inaugural Exhibition: Paintings by Americans," April 10–May 29, 1981, no. 5]. J. Verne Hawn, Shreveport, LA, to at least May 25, 1989 [illustrated in auction sales cat., "Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries," Christie’s, New York, May 25, 1989, lot 8, p. 16; unsold]. With Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, by 1992; sold to Richard H. Daniel, January 30, 1992; by descent to his daughter, Karen Daniel (1957–2019), Oak Park, IL, 2015; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Richard York Gallery, <em>Inaugural Exhibition Paintings by Americans</em>, Apr. 10–May 20, 1981, cat. 5 (ill.), as <em>Shipwreck</em>.

Literature

Published references

  • Ian Bennett, <em>A History of American Painting</em> (Hamlyn, 1973), ill. 77, pl. 78, as <em>Shipwreck</em>.
  • Christie, Manson, and Woods International, New York, <em>Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries</em>, sale cat. (Christie, Manson, and Woods International, Inc., New York, 1989), lot 8 (ill.), as <em>Shipwreck</em>.
  • Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, <em>American Paintings</em>, sale cat. (Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, 1990), cat. 4 (ill.).

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