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Benjamin Franklin Reinhart

An Evening Halt - Emigrants Moving to the West in 1840, 1867

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 101.6 × 177.8 cm (40 × 70 in.)

framed: 115.09 × 191.14 × 4.45 cm (45 5/16 × 75 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie)

Accession Number

2015.19.86

Artists / Makers

Benjamin Franklin Reinhart (painter) American, 1829 - 1885

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Inscription

lower left: B F Reinhart / 1867

Provenance

Collection of the artist. Dr. William F. Hughes [d. 1929, rector 1918-1929 of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Gregory the Great, Brooklyn]; Roman Catholic Church of St. Gregory the Great, Brooklyn; sold to (Kennedy Galleries, New York);[1] purchased 1958 by Landsell K. [1903-1965] and Helen G. Christie, New York; gift 27 April 1959 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The early provenance is according to information about the painting in the Frick Art Reference Library, New York, recorded in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Christie, Lansdell K.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Hughes, William F. Dr.
Kennedy Galleries

Exhibition History

1868: Forty-third Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, New York, 1868, no. 343.

1968: They Saw the West, Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Florida, 30 September - 10 November 1968, no catalogue.

1973: The American Frontier: Images and Myths, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 26 June - 16 September 1973, no. 58, fig. 36.

1975: 19th Century American Landscape Paintings, Great Hall, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 15 October - 10 December 1975, no catalogue.

1981: Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Cincinnati Art Museum; San Diego Museum of Art; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Des Moines Art Center; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, 1981-1983, no. 13, repro.

1981: Opening the Way West: Paintings of the Early 19th Century Depicting the Drama of Exploration in the American West, The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York, 21 March - 24 May 1981, no. 37.

1984: Loan to display in the offices of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Washington, 1984-1985.

1985: Women in the American West: An Historical Perspective, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 18 May - 31 August 1985, no catalogue.

2000: The American West: Out of Myth into Reality, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson; Terra Museum of Art, Chicago; Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, 12 February - 31 December 2000, no. 48, repro.

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

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

Bibliography

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, D.C., 1966; 124.

1973: Williams, Hermann Warner, Jr. Mirror to the American Past: A Survey of American Genre Painting, 1750-1900. Greenwich, Connectivut, 1973; 157.

1976: Doetsch, Raymond N. Journey to the Green and Golden Lands: The Epic Survival of the Wagon Trail. New York, 1976; 55.

1981: Nygren, Edward J. and Peter C. Marzio. Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery. Washington, D.C., 1981; 184.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 314, repro.