Evening Near Rockaway

Artist Roswell M. Shurtleff American, 1838–1915

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions29 1/2 x 37 in. (74.9 x 94.0 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

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

Object numberG.28.2.71

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Provenance**Created United States; 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.

Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, 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. 2. Beaufort, NC, Carteret County Library, "Six American Landscape Paintings," September 13-22, 1986. North Wilkesboro, NC, Wilkes Art Gallery, "American Landscapes from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 18-April 5, 1988. Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, "Bicentennial/Bicentennial: American Paintings and Audubon Prints from the NCMA," October 29-December 3, 1989.

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