Old Oaks at Sunset

Artist Henry Pember Smith American, 1854–1907

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensionsoverall: 20 1/2 × 28 in. (52.1 × 71.1 cm)
frame: 33 × 41 × 3 3/4 in. (83.8 × 104.1 × 9.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

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

Object numberG.28.2.3

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Provenance**Created United States; collection of the artist; possibly Dr. M. C. Gould; [possible sale, American Art Galleries, New York, March 25–31, 1914, no. 297] [1]; Robert Fulenwider Phifer (1849–1928), New York and Concord, NC; bequeathed to the NC State Art Society, 1928; officially transferred by the Society to the NCMA, 1961.

[1] “Over Three Hundred Old and Modern Paintings by Foreign and American Artists.”

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