Buck and Doe

Artist Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait American, born United Kingdom, 1819–1905

Date1885

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Frame: 43 3/4 x 33 5/8 in. (111.1 x 85.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Max Dreyfus

Object numberG.55.1.1

On View

Not on view

Provenance**Commissioned by George E. Woodard and Miss Smith [1], 1885; created New York, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Max Dreyfus, New York; given to NCMA, 1955.

[1] Per artist’s register.
Published ReferencesW.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 38.

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 59, illus. (b-w).

Warder H. Cadbury and Henry F. Marsh, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: Artist ofthe Adirondacks (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986), cat. no. 85.20 (listed as Buck and Doe), illus. (b-w)
Exhibition HistoryNorth Wilkesboro, N C, Wilkes Art Gallery, "American Landscapes from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 18-April 5, 1988.

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