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.”
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.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, "At Work in the Wilderness," January 14-March 20, 2011.

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