James M. Hart (1828–1901)
Winter on the Hudson, 1869
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Oil on canvas
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35 x 72 inches
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Signed and dated lower left: James M. Hart. / 1869
Provenance
- Edwin D. Morgan, New York, New York, by 1876
- Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, April 20, 1979, lot 11, from above
- Alexander Gallery, New York, New York, by 1979
- Richard Manoogian, Detroit, Michigan, 1979–2013
- Burrichter/Kierlin Collection, Winona, Minnesota, 2013
- Collection of J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox
Exhibited
New York Centennial Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Selected from the Private Art Galleries, National Academy of Design and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1876
Literature
New York Centennial Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Selected from the Private Art Galleries (New York: National Academy of Design and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1876), 10, no. 55.
Tara Dawson, Bartholomew Bland, and Laura L. Vookles, The Panoramic River: The Hudson and the Thames (Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 2013), 124, fig. 82.
Note
Dr. John Driscoll describes this work as “a magnum opus in which Hart presents not only one of the great paintings of his career, but one of the great winter views in American landscape painting in the middle years of the nineteenth century.” [1]
[1] Dr. John Driscoll (unpublished essay).
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