Study for "Shad Fishing", c. 1846

Not on View

Medium

pen and ink with gouache on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Claude J. Ranney, grandson of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.978

Artists / Makers

William Tylee Ranney (artist) American, 1813 - 1857

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: W.T.R.

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Ranney, Claude J.

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.