American Falls, Niagara, 1878

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.2 × 104.78 cm (30 × 41 1/4 in.)

framed: 98.43 × 127 × 6.35 cm (38 3/4 × 50 × 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. Cecil D. Kaufmann)

Accession Number

2015.19.106

Artists / Makers

William Morris Hunt (painter) American, 1824 - 1879

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Inscription

lower left, in monogram: WMH

Provenance

The artist; (his estate sale, Horticultural Hall, Boston, 1st session, 3 February 1880, no. 25); Alexander Agassiz [1835-1910].[1] purchased March 1961 by S.G. Lorris.[2] Cecil D. Kaufmann [1904-1976], Washington; gift December 1966 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] According to The Late Landscapes of William Morris Hunt, Exh. cat., University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Maryland, 1976: 100.

[2] The inscription on the back of stretcher reads: "I S.G. Lorris purchased this painting March 1961. I do consider that this is the first work of WM Hunt. I do bequest to my son Gregory Sergei and his children. This painting shall be sold."

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Kaufmann, Cecil D.

Exhibition History

1879: Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 11 November-15 December 1879, no. 39.

1880: Park Square Studio, Boston, 19-30 January 1880.

1880: Probably Loan Collection of Paintings in the West and East Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April-October 1880, no. 15, as Niagara.

1966: Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 April - 30 September 1966, unpublished checklist, as Niagara Falls.

1976: The Late Landscapes of William Morris Hunt, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park; Albany Institute of History and Art, 1976, no. 28, repro.

1978: The American Landscape Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 31 January - 31 August 1978, unpublished checklist, as Niagara Falls (American Falls).

1985: Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697-1901, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; New-York Historical Society, 13 July 1985 - 27 April 1986, no. 111, repro.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 303, repro.