Two Centuries: American Art

Alfred Thompson Bricher

On the Meadows of Old Newburyport

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October 6, 06:57 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alfred Thompson Bricher

1837 - 1908

On the Meadows of Old Newburyport

signed ATBricher. and dated 1873 (lower left)

gouache and watercolor on paper laid down on paperboard

paperboard: 13 ¼ by 26 inches (33.6 by 66 cm)

framed: 21 ¼ by 34 ¼ inches (53.9 by 86.9 cm)

John F. Norton, Pueblo, Colorado
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 1969
Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., 1969 (acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 20, 2015, lot 82)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

"The Water-Color Collection: Sixth Winter Exhibition of the National Academy of Design—Notes," The New York Times, February 9, 1873, p. 5, col. 2
Barbara Novak, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Nineteenth-century American Painting, London, 1986, pp. 152, 154, illustrated

New York, National Academy of Design, Sixth Annual Exhibition of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors, 1873, no. 85, p. 12

Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Art Association, Spring Exhibition, 1873, no. 174, p. 15

Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., 1973, no. 9

Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Springfield, Massachusetts, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Alfred Thompson Bricher 1837-1908, 1973-74, no. 32, pp. 17-18, 56, illustrated

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., 1981-82, pp. 25, 116, illustrated