Becalmed off Halfway Rock

1860

Fitz Henry Lane

Painter, American, 1804 - 1865

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Artwork history & notes

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.

Associated Names

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

1991

  • Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr., and Franklin Kelly. "'Art for the Nation': The National Gallery Collects." Antiques 139 (March 1991): 569, color pl. 2.

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.

Inscriptions

lower right: F.H.Lane. 1860.

Wikidata ID

Q20188415

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