GEORGE HENRY DURRIE | Loading Ox Sledge Near Skating Pond, View of New Haven

Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1947

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, George Henry Durrie, Connecticut Painter of American Life, March-April 1947, no. 32, illustrated n.p. (as View of New Haven, Winter)

Art Digest, December 1, 1946, p. 21, illustrated (image reversed)
Panorama, vol. II, December 1946, p. 38, illustrated
American Collector, vol. 16, March 1947, cover illustration
Antiques, vol. 51, April 1947, p. 260, illustrated
Martha Young Hutson, George Henry Durrie (1820-1863), American Winter Landscapist: Renowned Through Currier and Ives, Santa Barbara, California, 1977, no. 202, p. 223

The canvas is lined, the edges are trimmed and there appears to be frame abrasion along the edges. There is fine surface cracking throughout and gilt remnants from framing at the edges. There appears to be a two-inch scuff in the sky near center top edge and a few scattered pindots of possible surface accretions throughout. The work appears slightly dirty. Under UV: there is inpainting to address frame abrasion along the left edge, a few scattered pindots in the sky and in the trees at right.
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