William Trost Richards (1833–1905)
At Atlantic City, 1877
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Oil on canvas
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24 x 20 inches
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Signed and dated lower left: Wm. T. Richards/ Phi/a. 1877
Provenance
- Stryker Family, Philadelphia
- Bernard and S. Dean Levy, New York, 1975
- JoAnn and Julian Ganz, Jr., Los Angeles, 1975
- Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, May 28, 1987, lot 23
- Richard York Gallery, New York, 1987, acquired from above
- Estate of J. Welles Henderson, 1987
- Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, May 22, 2008, lot 34
- Private collection
- Collection of J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox
Exhibited
Pertaining to the Sea, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 1976, no. 46.
An American Perspective, Nineteenth Century Art from the Collection of JoAnn and Julian Ganz, Jr., National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981–82, no. 5, illustrated in color [Traveled: Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of Art; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art]
William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Massachusetts, 2019, no. 106
Literature
An American Perspective, Nineteenth Century Art from the Collection of JoAnn and Julian Ganz, Jr., (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1981), no. 5.
Linda S. Ferber, William Trost Richards (1833–1906): American Landscape and Marine Painter (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1980), 245–48, 257, 431, 536, 538, figs. 205, 206.
Jeffrey Howe, ed., William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape (Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College, 2019), 19, 126.
Note
Dr. Linda S. Ferber states, “The particular seaside genre investigated in Richard’s work lies outside of conventions of traditional marine and coastal painting. These works are not ship portraits. … Nor do these images belong, like Homer’s Long Branch, to the modern life subject of seaside resorts. These particular motifs were drawn from the then–largely uninhabited remoter stretches of New Jersey’s northern coast. Lone Trees, Coast of New Jersey of 1870 is the first major work on this theme and At Atlantic City [of] 1877 is among the latest.”[1]
[1] Linda S. Ferber, “William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape,” in William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape, ed. Jeffrey Howe (Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College, 2019), 19.
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