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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.86
People
Christopher Pearse Cranch, American (Alexandria, VA 1813 - 1892 Cambridge, MA)
Title
View on the Hudson
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1853
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/173163

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
50.8 x 76.2 cm (20 x 30 in.)
frame: 73.7 x 99.1 x 8.9 cm (29 x 39 x 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: reverse of stretcher: "Mr. Cranch / 806 Broadway" (Cranch lived at this address for only one year, 1853).

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private collection; Peter Tillou, Litchfield, CT, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Director's Discretionary Fund
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.86
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description


Publication History

  • Nancy Stula, At Home and Abroad: The Transcendental Landscapes of Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892), exh. cat., Lyman Allen Museum and University Press of New England (New London, CT, 2007), p. 37, 178, ill p. 38, fig. 11
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 26, 164-165, cat. 104, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Annual Exhibition, 1853, National Academy of Design, New York, 01/01/1853 - 12/31/1853
  • At Home and Abroad: The Transcendental Landscapes of Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892), Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 10/12/2007 - 02/25/2008; Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, 03/16/2008 - 05/31/2008

Verification Level

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