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Julian Alden Weir

Obweebetuck, c. 1908

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of George M. Oyster, Jr.)

Accession Number

2015.19.14

Artists / Makers

Julian Alden Weir (painter) American, 1852 - 1919

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: J. Alden Weir

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Oyster, George M., Jr.

Exhibition History

1918: 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.

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.

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.

1963: 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1966: Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 15 April - 30 September 1966, unpublished checklist.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1981: Artists on Vacation, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 8 July 1981 - before January 1982, unpublished checklist.

1983: Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 June - 28 August 1983, unpublished checklist, no. 24.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.

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.