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Winter Sun and Shadow
Winter Sun and Shadow

Winter Sun and Shadow

Artist Robert William Vonnoh American, 1858–1933
Date1890
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
Frame: 26 x 32 x 2 3/8 in. (66 x 81.3 x 6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number72.1.5
On View
On view
Provenance**Created United States, 1890; collection of the artist. [Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, January 26, 1972, no. 50]; sold to NCMA.Published References19th and 20th Century American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors (New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 1972), lot 50.

(Berry-Hill Galleries advertisement), Antiques 101 (May 1972), illus. (b-w) 817.

Ruth Davidson, "Museum Accessions." Antiques 103 (May 1973), illus. (b-w) 874.

Moussa M. Domit, American Impressionist Painting (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1973), no. 69, illus. (b-w).

North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1973), discussed 10, 17, illus. (b-w) 16, listed 46.

William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984), discussed 121, illus. (color) pl. 130.

May Brawley Hill, Grez Days: Robert Vonnoh in France (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 1987), discussed 23, illus. (b-w) fig. 9.

The Painters in Grez-sur-Loing (exhibition catalogue) (Tokyo: Yomiuri Shinbunsha: Bijutsukan Renraku Kyogikai, 2000), 272-273, illus. (color) 139.

America! (exhibition catalogue) (Treviso: Linea d'ombra Libri, 2008), illus. (color) 78 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

Dulce Maria Roman, Monet and American Impressionism (exhibition catalogue) (Gainesville: University Press of Florida for Harn Museum of Art, 2015), illus.
Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "American Impressionist Painting," July 1-August 26, 1973; New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 18-November 2, 1973; Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Museum of Art, December 15, 1973-January 31, 1974; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, March 8-April 29, 1974, no. 69, illus. (b-w).

Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina, Morehead Planetarium, "Cartier Soirée," October 16-31, 1979.

Wilmington, NC. St. John's Museum of Art, "Inaugural Exhibition of American Paintings," December 7, 1980-January 24, 1981.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "The Light Aesthetic," September 1984–July 1985.

Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Art Museum, "The Painters in Grez-sur-Loing," October 21-November 26, 2000; Fuchu, Japan, Fuchu Art Museum, December 2, 2000-January 21, 2001; Otani, Japan, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, January 27-March 4, 2001, cat. 272-273, illus. (color) 139.

Gainesville, FL, Harn Museum of Art, “Monet and American Impressionism,” February 3–May 17, 2015; Chattanooga, TN, Hunter Museum of American Art, June–September 2015; Savannah, GA, Telfair Museums, October 16, 2015–January 24, 2016.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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