Morning, View on Smith's Island, Norwalk Bay, Connecticut

Artist George Loring Brown American, 1814–1889

Date1863

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions34 x 60 in. (86.4 x 152.4 cm)
Frame: 40 3/4 x 66 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. (103.5 x 168.6 x 6.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.4

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Provenance**Created United States, 1863; collection of the artist. C. W. Bowker; [Victor D. Spark, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.Published ReferencesAmerican Romantic (exhibition catalogue) (Hagerstown, MD: The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 1947), no. 8.

W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art: 1956), no. 4.

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 5, illus. (b-w).

Nina Kasanof, "American Landscapes of the 19th Century in the North Carolina Museum of Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 8, no. 4 (June 1969), discussed 6, illus. (b-w) fig. 4.

Thomas W. Leavitt and William David Barry, George Loring Brown: Landscapes of Europe and America, 1834-1880 (exhibition catalogue) (Burlington, Vt.: Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 1973), cat. no. 12, discussed 28, illus. (b-w).

19th Century American Topographic Painters (exhibition catalogue) (Miami: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1975), cat. no. 20.

American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no. 5.

American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Asheville: Asheville Art Museum, 1976), listed (with artist's bio.) 4, illus. (b-w) 4.
Exhibition HistoryHagerstown, MD, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts,"American Romantic," March 30-April 27, 1947, no. 8.

Manchester, NH, The Currier Gallery of Art, "George Loring Brown: Landscapes of Europe and America 1834-1889," September 8-October 7, 1973; Burlington, VT, University of Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, October 15-November 14, 1973; Ithaca, NY, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, November 21-December 20, 1973, no. 12, illus. (b-w) 30.

Miami, FL, University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum, "19th Century American Topographic Painters," November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975, no. 20.

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19, 1975, no. 5.

Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 16-June 27, 1976, listed (with artist's bio.) 4, illus. (b-w) 4.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, "At Work in the Wilderness: Picturing the American Landscape, 1820-1920," January 14-March 20, 2011.
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