Aaron Draper Shattuck 1832-1928

Estate of the artist
Eugene and Katherine S. Emigh (the artist's granddaughter)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1973
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1973

 

New Britain, Connecticut, The New Britain Museum of American Art, Aaron Draper Shattuck, N.A., 1832-1928: A Retrospective Exhibition, March-April 1970, no. 13, illustrated
Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., June-July 1973, no. 66
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, America as Art, April-November 1976, no. 141, illustrated p. 120
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, An American Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., October 1981-September 1982, pp. 21, 99, illustrated pp. 21, 165
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, March-September 1985, no. 118, pp. 146, 275, illustrated pl. 12

Charles B. Ferguson, "Aaron Draper Shattuck, White Mountain School Painter," American Art Review, no. 3, 1976, pp. 72-74, illustrated p. 73
Joshua C. Taylor, The Fine Arts in America, Chicago, Illinois, 1979, p. 97, illustrated
Linda S. Ferber, William Trost Richards (1833-1905): American Landscape and Marine Painter, Ph.D. dissertation, New York, 1980, pp. 139, 423, 486, illustrated fig. 101 
Nicolai Cikovsky Jr. and Michael Quick, George Inness, Los Angeles, California, 1985, p. 47, illustrated fig. 23
FMR Magazine, no. 10, April 1985, pp. 34-35, illustrated
New York Magazine, April 22, 1985, p. 81
Barbara Dayer Gallati, "The Shattuck Family: Aaron Draper Shattuck's Experiment in Narrative Content," The American Art Journal, vol. XX, no. 3, 1988, illustrated p. 43
Susan P. Casteras, English Pre-Raphaelitism and its Reception in America in the Nineteenth Century, London, 1990, pp. 167-168, illustrated fig. 96
David C. Miller, Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth Century American Culture, Cambridge, England, 1990, illustrated
James L. Yarnell, Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge, New York, 1995, p. 32, illustrated fig. 41

Very good condition; lined; under UV: some very fine lines of inpainting to address craquelure, particularly at center-right.
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