Study for "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way", c. 1862

Not on View

Medium

graphite on gray-green wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 31.75 × 50.8 cm (12 1/2 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.276

Artists / Makers

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (artist) American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868

Image Use

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Provenance

Rear Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze (son of the artist), New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1917; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Leutze, E.H.C.

Exhibition History

1972: The Dusseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972-1973

1976: Emanuel Leutze, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1976

Bibliography

1975: Groseclose, Barbara S. Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom is the Only King. Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1975, pp. 128-129, no. 271.

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. 34, no. 242.