Sketch of a Cottage Yard
c. 1876
Painter, American, 1836 - 1910
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 68
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on academy board
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund and through the gift of Orme Wilson)
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Dimensions
overall: 26 × 36.8 cm (10 1/4 × 14 1/2 in.)
framed: 37.1 × 49.5 × 5.1 cm (14 5/8 × 19 1/2 × 2 in.) -
Accession
2014.136.83
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Acquired at auction in Boston c. 1878 by William S. Eaton, Boston; by descent to his son, Francis S. Eaton, Boston.[1] William Francis Cochran Ewing, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1946;[2] purchased 5 June 1950 by Oliver B. James, Oyster Bay, New York and Phoenix; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[3] purchased 24 April 1961 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Early provenance according to correspondence 3 May 1961 from M. Knoedler & Co. to Corcoran Gallery of Art. See NGA curatorial file.
[2] This painting is stock number A3406 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 9, A2681-A4782, 1943 November-1952 February, page 120 of the stockbook.
[3] Stock number A7978 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 11, A7178-A9437, 1959 February-1970 December, page 119 of the stockbook.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1926
Long-term Loan, Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926.
1953
Summertime, U. S. A., Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1953, no. 11.
1963
Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 October-29 December 1963, unpublished checklist.
1988
Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years, Menil Collection, Houston; Virginia Musuem of Fine Arts, Richmond; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1988-1989.
2004
Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004-7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.
2008
The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March-27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 302, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q46630446