Study for "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way"

c. 1862

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Artist, American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rear Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze (son of the artist), New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1917; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1972

  • The Dusseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972-1973

1976

  • Emanuel Leutze, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1976

Bibliography

1975

  • Groseclose, Barbara S. Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom is the Only King. Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1975, pp. 128-129, no. 271.

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 34, no. 242.

Wikidata ID

Q64559356

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