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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.164
People
Thomas Cole, American (Lancashire, England 1801 - 1848 Catskill, NY)
Title
Watkins Glen; verso: Landscape
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1840s
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227785

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
31 x 39.5 cm (12 3/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
framed: 43.5 x 52.1 x 5.1 cm (17 1/8 x 20 1/2 x 2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Collection of the artist; by descent to Mrs. Edith Cole Hill; purchased by Richard Feigen, 1964; his gift to theFogg Art Museum, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard L. Feigen
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
1966.164
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 2
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Close Observation: Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church from the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution Press and Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (1978), p. 6, ill. p. 5
  • 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. 122-123, cat. 75, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
  • The Paintings and Oil Sketches of Frederic E. Church, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 09/09/1978 - 10/24/1978

Verification Level

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