Obweebetuck
c. 1908
Julian Alden Weir
Painter, American, 1852 - 1919
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
painted surface: 60.8 × 84.77 cm (23 15/16 × 33 3/8 in.)
overall: 61.38 × 85.73 cm (24 3/16 × 33 3/4 in.)
framed: 91.44 × 118.11 × 15.24 cm (36 × 46 1/2 × 6 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.14
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist [1852-1919]; purchased December 1918 by George M. Oyster, Jr. [1849-1921], Washington;[1] his estate; bequest 21 January 1924 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Letter, 4 December 1918, Oyster to C. Powell Minnigerode, Corcoran director; copy in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1918
Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists at the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 11 May - 9 September 1918, no. 98, repro., as Obwabetuck.
Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, City Art Museum (now St. Louis Art Museum), St. Louis, 15 September - 28 October 1918, no. 71, as Obwabetuck.
1919
Seventh Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 December 1919 - 25 January 1920, no. 161.
1963
A Century and a Half of American Painting: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, 3 April - 13 May 1963, no. 26.
The Romantic Century, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 22 June - 9 September 1963, no catalogue.
1966
Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 15 April - 30 September 1966, unpublished checklist.
1979
Connecticut and American Impressionism: The Artists and the Landscape, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 17 March - 30 May 1980, no. 83.
1981
Artists on Vacation, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 8 July 1981 - before January 1982, unpublished checklist.
1983
Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 June - 28 August 1983, unpublished checklist, no. 24.
1989
Loan for use by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, 30 March 1989 - 20 June 1991.
1993
Loan for use by the Director, Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, Virginia, 1 May 1993 - 2 January 1997.
1999
American Impressionism: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, North Bethesda, Maryland, 11 September - 8 November 1999, unnumbered catalogue.
2003
The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 July 2003-18 October 2004, unpublished checklist.
2013
American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.
2016
A Good Summer's Work: J. Alden Weir, Connecticut Impressionist, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, 2016, no catalogue.
Bibliography
1924
Brigham, Gertrude Richardson. "Art and Artists of the Capital." The Washington Post (1924): A3.
1939
Lewis, Elizabeth Ray. "Museum Treasure of the Week." The Washington Post (1939): AM5.
1960
Young, Dorothy Weir. The Life and Letters of J. Alden Weir. New Haven, 1960: 200.
1973
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 9.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 323, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: J. Alden Weir
Wikidata ID
Q46632705