Black Ice on Calabaugh Pond, 1929

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 64.14 × 80.65 cm (25 1/4 × 31 3/4 in.)

framed: 82.55 × 98.43 × 3.81 cm (32 1/2 × 38 3/4 × 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Katherine Garrison Biddle)

Accession Number

2016.22.14

Artists / Makers

George Biddle (artist) American, 1885 - 1973

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Inscription

lower right: Biddle 1929; reverse: Biddle 1929 / no. 188 / Black Ice on Calabaugh Pond

Provenance

The artist's sister-in-law, Katherine Garrison Biddle [1890-1977], Washington; bequest 19 December 1958 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, as Skating on the Pond, with life interest to the donor; life interest released 1973; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Biddle, Katherine Garrison
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1978: The American Landscape Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 31 January - 31 August 1978, unpublished checkllist.

Bibliography

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: 121, repro.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 288, repro.