The Target, 1890

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Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift from Mrs. Caroline G. Dimmock in the name of her first husband, Louis C. Garnier)

Accession Number

2015.19.166

Artists / Makers

A. Kline (painter) American, active 1890

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Inscription

lower right: A. Kline 1890

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Kennedy Galleries
Private Collection

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1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist.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.