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Otto Henry Bacher 1856 - 1909
Estimate
250,000 - 450,000 USD
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Description
- Otto Henry Bacher
- Ella's Hotel, Richfield, Ohio, 1885
- signed Otto H. Bacher and dated Buck Eye State 1885 (upper right)
- oil on canvas
- 31 by 43 inches
- (78.7 by 109.2 cm)
Provenance
Dr. Ewing, Richfield, Ohio
Private Collection (by descent; sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 17, 1980, lot 140, illustrated)
Alexander Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1980
Private Collection (by descent; sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 17, 1980, lot 140, illustrated)
Alexander Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1980
Exhibited
Paris, France, Paris Universal Exposition 1889, May-November 1889, no. 4, illustrated (as Richfield Center, Ohio)
Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; New York, The New-York Historical Society, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, September 1989–December 1990, no. 4, pp. 112, 117, 268, illustrated; also illustrated in color p. 113 (as Ella's Hotel, Richfield Center, Ohio)
New York, The Forbes Galleries, The American Heritage Winter Antiques Show, January 1993
Cleveland, Ohio, Federal Reserve Historical Society, F.C. Gottwald and the Old Bohemians, November 1993-January 1994
Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art, Triumph of Color and Light: Ohio’s Impressionists, February-May 1994
Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Transformations in Cleveland Art: 1796-1946, May-July 1996
Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Celebrate America: 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, February-April 1999, no. 1, p. 20, illustrated p. 21
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Impressionists at Home and Abroad, February-August 2001
Washington, D.C., The White House, September 2001-January 2009 (on loan)
Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; New York, The New-York Historical Society, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, September 1989–December 1990, no. 4, pp. 112, 117, 268, illustrated; also illustrated in color p. 113 (as Ella's Hotel, Richfield Center, Ohio)
New York, The Forbes Galleries, The American Heritage Winter Antiques Show, January 1993
Cleveland, Ohio, Federal Reserve Historical Society, F.C. Gottwald and the Old Bohemians, November 1993-January 1994
Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art, Triumph of Color and Light: Ohio’s Impressionists, February-May 1994
Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Transformations in Cleveland Art: 1796-1946, May-July 1996
Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Celebrate America: 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, February-April 1999, no. 1, p. 20, illustrated p. 21
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Impressionists at Home and Abroad, February-August 2001
Washington, D.C., The White House, September 2001-January 2009 (on loan)
Literature
William H. Gerdts, Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, New York, 1990, vol. II, p. 219, illustrated fig. 2.194, p. 218; also illustrated on the back cover (as Ella's Hotel, Richfield Center)
Catalogue Note
According to Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., "Today, Otto Bacher is best known for his connection with James McNeill Whistler, whom he met in Venice in 1880. Many years later he wrote an important book about him, With Whistler in Venice (1908), and he was a prolific etcher in a manner strongly influenced by Whistler.
"Ella's Hotel, Richfield, Ohio shows little of Whistler's idiosyncratic style, and little either of the Impressionist handling and color that came to characterize Bacher's paintings beginning about 1890. In 1883, Bacher, with his friend the painter Joseph De Camp, whom he knew from Italy, taught at Richfield, a town located south of Cleveland, Bacher's birthplace. In some way that is not clear, the painting seems to be a memento, deliberately American in its flavoring, of that experience. The man in the buckboard is said to be Dr. Ewing, whose sons studied with Bacher at Richfield, and through whose family the painting descended. Bacher added to his signature at the upper right 'Buck Eye State'" (Celebrate America: 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, 1999, p. 20).
"Ella's Hotel, Richfield, Ohio shows little of Whistler's idiosyncratic style, and little either of the Impressionist handling and color that came to characterize Bacher's paintings beginning about 1890. In 1883, Bacher, with his friend the painter Joseph De Camp, whom he knew from Italy, taught at Richfield, a town located south of Cleveland, Bacher's birthplace. In some way that is not clear, the painting seems to be a memento, deliberately American in its flavoring, of that experience. The man in the buckboard is said to be Dr. Ewing, whose sons studied with Bacher at Richfield, and through whose family the painting descended. Bacher added to his signature at the upper right 'Buck Eye State'" (Celebrate America: 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, 1999, p. 20).