On the Ohio, c. 1880

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Medium

oil on linen on composition board

Dimensions

overall: 26.04 × 29.21 cm (10 1/4 × 11 1/2 in.)

framed: 38.74 × 49.85 × 4.76 cm (15 1/4 × 19 5/8 × 1 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through the gift of Joseph Sanders)

Accession Number

2015.19.95

Artists / Makers

Thomas Anshutz (painter) American, 1851 - 1912

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Inscription

upper right reverse: T Anshutz

Provenance

The artist; his estate; (James Graham & Sons, New York) and (Victor D. Spark, New York), by June 1957;[1] purchased 27 February 1963 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Victor D. Spark Papers, Terra Foundation Center for Digital Collections, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Client Files - James Graham & Sons 1957.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Graham & Sons, James
Spark, Victor D.

Exhibition History

1963: Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 October - 29 December 1963, unpublished checklist.

1963: Thomas Anshutz, 1851-1912: Retrospective Exhibition, Graham Gallery, New York, 19 February - 16 March 1963, no. 8.

1972: Conservation in the Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 September - 22 October 1972, unpublished checklist.

1978: The American Landscape Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 31 January - 31 August 1978, unpublished checklist.

1981: The Kentucky Painter: from the Frontier Era to the Great War, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, 25 January - 15 March 1981, no. 6, repro.

1983: The Kentucky Tradition in American Landscape Painting: From the Early 19th Century to the Present, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, 1 October - 5 December 1983, no. 12, repro.

1985: Henri's Circle, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 April - 16 June 1985, unnumbered checklist.

1987: Ohio River Odyssey, Huntington Galleries, West Virginia, 12 July - 31 December 1987.

1994: Thomas Anshutz: Artist and Teacher, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, 20 August - 20 November 1994, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

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: 2, repro.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 285, repro.