Provenance
(Thomas Benedict Clarke [1848-1931]), New York.[1] William H. Fuller [d. 1902], New York, by 1892;[2] returned 1893 to (Thomas Benedict Clark);[3] (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 14-18 February 1899, no. 266); Francis Sydney Smithers [1849-1919], Glen Cove and New York City;[4] by inheritance to his wife, Mabel Stevens Smithers [b. 1868]; bequest 18 April 1952 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The painting is mentioned in a 20 September 1891 _New-York Daily Tribune_ review of an exhibition at the Art House, New York. The Art House was established in 1891 by Thomas Benedict Clarke as a gallery space through which he promoted the work of Inness.
[2] Lent by Fuller to _Paintings by American Artists; Annual Meeting_, Union League Club, New York, 14-16 January 1892, no. 32.
[3] According to a letter of 28 December 1893 from Fuller to Clarke, Fuller returned the work because he found it to be out of character with the rest of his collection. Clarke lent the painting to the _63rd Annual Exhibition_, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1893-1894.
[4] See _Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs_ 9 (June 1908): 253.
Accession Number
2014.136.73
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 76.2 × 113.03 cm (30 × 44 1/2 in.) | framed: 109.22 × 147.32 cm (43 × 58 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Mabel Stevens Smithers)