- Inscription
- Provenance
- Exhibition History
- Bibliography
Overview
No overview.
Inscription
lower right: F.H.Lane. 1860.
Marks and Labels
null
Provenance
Private collection, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. Harrison G. Reynolds, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, c. 1940; Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy B. Middendorf, Oyster Bay, New York; (Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.); sold 1985 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1992 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1978
- American Luminism, Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1978, no. 4, as Sailboats Becalmed off Halfway Rock (erroneously dated 1863).
- 1988
- Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1988, no. 41, color repro.
- 1991
- Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 150-151, color repro.
- 1999
- An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.
- 2002
- American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880, Tate Britain, London; Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002, no. 68, repro.
Bibliography
- 1988
- Wilmerding, John. Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 1988: 89, 92, 162, no. 41.
- 1991
- Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr., and Franklin Kelly. "'Art for the Nation': The National Gallery Collects." Antiques 139 (March 1991): 569, color pl. 2.
- 1991
- Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 150-151, color repro.
- 1996
- Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 410-412, color repro.
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