The Valley of Arconville by Theodore Robinson
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The Valley of Arconville

Theodore Robinson · c. 1887

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Arthur A. Carey, Waltham, MA, by 1889. M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1908; sold to Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1908; sold to M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1931; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1941.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, Society of American Artists, Eleventh Exhibition, May 13–June 15, 1889, no. 119.
  • San Francisco, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Feb. 20–Dec, 1915, no. 2668 as Le Val Arconville: Eure.
  • Washington, DC, Museum of Modern Art Gallery, A Century of American Painting, Mar. 1939, as Val Arconville.
  • Los Angeles Museum, The Development of Impressionism, Jan. 12–Feb. 28, 1940, no. 76 as Valley, Arconville.
  • Brooklyn Museum, Special Exhibition of Theodore Robinson, Nov. 12–Jan. 5, 1947, no. 238, ill. ix.
  • Indiana, South Bend Art Association, American Painting in the Manner of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948, no. 44 as The Vale of Arconville.
  • Milwaukee–Downer College, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists 1851–1951, Feb. 13–Mar. 23, 1951, no. 7 as Val D’Arcouville. *only checklist on back of symposium brochure, The Arts in Society, Milwaukee–Downer College Feb. 13, 1951.
  • 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].
  • New York, American Federation of Arts, Monet and the Giverny Group, Dayton Art Institute, Jan. 6–Feb. 12, 1961, no. 27 as the Vale of Arconville; Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Mar. 11–Apr. 5; Tucson, Ariz., University of Arizona Museum of Art, Apr. 19–May 10; Reno, University of Nevada, Oct. 21–Nov. 11; San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery, Nov. 30–Dec. 23; Atlanta Art Association, Jan. 7–28, 1962.
  • Madison, University of Wisconsin, Memorial Union Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896, Oct. 29–Nov. 10, 1964, no. 11, ill. no. 14 as The Vale of Arconville.
  • New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors by Theodore Robinson, Nov. 1–Dec. 15, 1966, cat. no. 41.
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896, May 1–June 10, 1973, no. 22, ill.; The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, July 12–Aug. 26; Worcester Art Museum, Sept. 19–Oct. 28; Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Art Museum, Nov. 19–Dec. 23; Utica, NY, Musnon–Williams–Proctor Institute, Jan. 20–Feb. 24, 1974.

Literature

Published references

  • D.F. Hoopes, The American Impressionists (Watson–Guptill Publications, 1972), p. 48, pl. 15.
  • 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).
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 47.

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