Evening on the Seine

Artist Lovell Birge Harrison American, 1854–1929

Datecirca 1888

MediumPastel on prepared canvas

Dimensions28 3/4 x 39 1/2 in. (73 x 100.3 cm)
Frame: 34 x 45 x 1 3/4 in. (86.4 x 114.3 x 4.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.28.2.36

On View

Not on view

Provenance**Created United States, ca. 1888; collection of the artist. Robert Fulenwider Phifer (1849–1928), New York and Concord, NC; bequeathed to the NC State Art Society, Raleigh, NC, 1928; officially transferred by the Society to the NCMA, 1961.Published References“Fourth Prize Fund Exhibition” (exhibition review), The Art Amateur 19, no. 1 (June 1888), mentioned 6.

“The New York Water-Color Club” (exhibition review), The Art Amateur 24, no. 1 (December 1890), mentioned 3.

Pictures by the Harrison Brothers (exhibition review), New York Times, April 14, 1897, mentioned.

“The Sixty-seventh Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts” (exhibition review), The Citizen 3, no. 12 (February 1898), mentioned 273.

Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 32, illus. (b-w) 33.

Andrea F. Hulsby,”Birge Harrison: Artist, Teacher and Critic,” (Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 2003), 107, illus. (b-w) 383.

Andrea Husby, “Uniting Man and Nature in Paint: Lovell Birge Harrison, the Early Years (1881 to 1896),” in California Art Club Newsletter (Spring 2010), illus. (color) 2.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, American Art Galleries, “Fourth Prize Fund Exhibition,” 1888, no. 160 (as Twilight on the Seine at Paris).

New York, NY, American Art Galleries, “First Annual Exhibition of the New York Watercolor Club,” November 1890, no. 171 (as Evening on the Seine).

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, Eighteenth Triennial Exhibition, October–November 1892, no. 143 (lent by the artist).

Chicago, IL, World Columbian Exposition, 1893, no. 2017 (lent by the artist).

New York, NY, American Art Galleries, “Paintings by Birge Harrison and Alexander Harrison,” April 1897, no. 47 (as Evening on the Seine (pastel)).

Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Museum Association, 1897 (lent by the artist).

Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, “Sixty-Seventh Annual Exhibition,” January 10–February 22, 1898, no. 594 (as Evening on the Seine).

Raleigh, NC, The North Carolina State Art Society, Temporary Art Museum, Agricultural Building, “An Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works of Art Left as a Bequest to the Society by the late Robert F. Phifer of Concord, N.C., and New York City,” February 26, 1929, no. 20.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Robert F. Phifer Collection,” March 31–May 13, 1973, 32, illus. (b-w) 33.
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