Study for "Shad Fishing"
c. 1846
William Tylee Ranney
Artist, American, 1813 - 1857
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and ink with gouache on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Claude J. Ranney, grandson of the artist)
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Dimensions
image: 8.57 × 14.92 cm (3 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
sheet: 12.07 × 17.94 cm (4 3/4 × 7 1/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.978
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Claude J. Ranney (grandson of the artist), Malvern, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1960; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1962
William Ranney, Painter of the Early West, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, 1962-1963, p. 49, no. 123, repro
1991
William Tylee Ranney: East of the Mississippi, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1991-1992, pp. 84-85, no. 41, repro
2006
William Ranney: An American Artist, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 2006-2007, pp. 186, 188, no. D9, repro
Bibliography
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 31, no. 217.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: W.T.R.
Wikidata ID
Q64639759