Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)
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Dimensions
overall: 97.79 × 139.38 cm (38 1/2 × 54 7/8 in.)
framed: 106.36 × 147.32 × 6.99 cm (41 7/8 × 58 × 2 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
2014.136.55
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(William Macbeth, Inc., New York); purchased December 1934 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1932
Thirteenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 December 1932-15 January 1933.
127th Annual Exhibition in Oil and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1932.
Twelfth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1932.
1934
"Greenland" and Other Subjects by Rockwell Kent, Macbeth Gallery, New York, 7-19 November 1934, no. 20.
1961
American Landscape Painters, 1800-1960, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, Virginia, 1961, no. 19.
1963
A Century and a Half of Amerian Painting: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, 1963, checklist no. 39.
1969
Rockwell Kent: The Early Years, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 1969.
1978
American Landscape Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, unpublished checklist.
1980
Guy Pene du Bois: Artist About Town, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1980-1981, no. 99.
1982
A Distant Harmony: Comparisons in the Painting of Canada and the United States of America, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, 1982-1983.
1985
Henri's Circle, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 April-16 June 1985, unnumbered checklist.
An Enkindled Eye: The Paintings of Rockwell Kent, A Retrospective Exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Columbus Museum of Art; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1985-1986.
1989
Permeable Border: Canadian and American Painting 1920-1940, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1989-1990.
1994
Long-term loan to United States Embassy in Stockholm, 1994-1998.
1998
The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.
1999
The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy, The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, 1999-2000.
2013
American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 305, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q46634508