The Target
1890
Painter, American, active 1890
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 60.96 × 50.48 cm (24 × 19 7/8 in.)
framed: 69.85 × 59.69 × 2.22 cm (27 1/2 × 23 1/2 × 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.166
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Probably purchased in upstate New York; by inheritance to the purchaser's daughter and her husband, Matawan, New Jersey;[1] purchased by (Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York); purchased 4 June 1980 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to a letter of 28 July 1980, from Cynthia Seibels, Kennedy Galleries librarian, to Edward Nygren, Corcoran curator (in NGA curatorial files), the New Jersey couple believed the wife's father purchased the painting, but they did not know from whom he purchased it.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1982
Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist.
1985
More Than Meets the Eye: The Art of Trompe L'Oeil, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, 7 December 1985 - 27 April 1986, no. 39, repro.
2014
Peindre l'Amérique: Les artistes du Nouveau Monde, 1830-1900, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, 27 July - 26 October 2014, no. 37, repro.
Bibliography
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 305, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: A. Kline 1890
Wikidata ID
Q46631796