Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1856-1857
Object Number:
1857.11
Medium:
Oak
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Luce Center
Over The Hills and Far Away
Object Number:
1985.23
Date:
1878
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall (unframed): 24 x 42 in. (61 x 106.7 cm)
framed: 31 1/4 x 49 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. ( 79.4 x 125.7 x 6.7 cm )
Marks:
obverse, LR: 'McE'
Description:
Under cloudy, restless daylight sky mountains are seen in rearground; autumnal scene with birch trees to right, low slope to left and lightly traveled path in center, small figures placed in center. The landscape combines bucolic sentiment with foreground detailed realism and design derived from inherent components of the scenery.
Credit Line:
Gift of Richard T. Sharp
Provenance:
National Academy of Design, 1878 #484
Sterling Smith, 1879
Channing Baster (grandson of Sterling Smith), 1924
Mrs. M.G. Intner, 1974
Richard T. Sharp, 1981
New-York Historical Society, 1985
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
