Great Falls of the Potomac, 1873

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 86.36 × 114.3 cm (34 × 45 in.)

framed: 144.15 × 116.84 × 13.97 cm (56 3/4 × 46 × 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

Accession Number

2016.22.18

Artists / Makers

William MacLeod (painter) American, 1811 - 1892

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Inscription

lower left: W. MacLeod, 1873

Provenance

William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington; gift 1873 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The Corcoran Gallery of Art's Accession Record Sheet (in NGA curatorial files) gives the date 10 May 1869 as the date of the painting's acquisition by Board Meeting action, and the painting's Corcoran accession number was [18]69.47. The 1869 date is apparently at odds with the 1873 date inscribed with the artist's signature, however additional notes on the Accession Record Sheet, taken from the "Old Register," indicate that "by permission of the Trustees [this painting] was substituted by the artist for one of inferior value in W. Corcoran's collection..." It appears that this 1873 painting then received the 1869 accession number of the painting it replaced in the collection.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran, William Wilson

Exhibition History

1901: Extended loan to Louise Home, Washington, 16 May 1901 - 3 May 1923.

1952: Tribute to W. W. Corcoran, George Washington University, Washington, October 1952.

2000: Virginia Landscape, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond; Historical Society of Western Virginia, Roanoke, 2000-2001 (shown only in Roanoke).

2005: William MacLeod: Painter and Curator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 September - 7 November 2005, no. 9, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1873: "Art Notes." Evening Star. (23 April 1873).

1874: Bouligny, M. E. P. A Tribute to W. W. Corcoran of Washington City. Philadelphia, 1874: 70-71.

1874: "The Corcoran Gallery: An Hour's Stroll Through The Collection." Evening Star (17 January 1874): 1: 3-5.

1874: "The Corcoran Gallery." Evening Post (6 April 1874).

1966: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 79.

1983: Cosentino, Andrew J., and Henry H. Glassie. The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800-1915. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 107, no. 55.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 307, repro.