Night Sinks on the Sea
Artist
Lovell Birge Harrison
American, 1854–1929
Date1896
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions27 x 40 1/2 in. (68.6 x 102.9 cm)
Frame: 30 1/2 x 40 1/2 x 3 in. (77.5 x 102.9 x 7.6 cm)
Frame: 30 1/2 x 40 1/2 x 3 in. (77.5 x 102.9 x 7.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.28.2.37
On View
On viewAndrea F. Hulsby,”Birge Harrison: Artist, Teacher and Critic,” (Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 2003), 209–210, illus. 406.
Andrea Husby, “Uniting Man and Nature in Paint: Lovell Birge Harrison, the Early Years (1881 to 1896),” in California Art Club Newsletter (Spring 2010), briefly discussed 3.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, American Art Galleries, “Paintings by Birge Harrison and Alexander Harrison,” April 1897, no. 12.
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. 21.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31–May 13, 1973, listed 94.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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