The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection

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Worthington Whittredge

Indians Crossing the Platte River

Auction Closed

April 20, 12:24 AM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Worthington Whittredge

1820 - 1910

Indians Crossing the Platte River



signed W. Whittredge and dated 1867 (lower left)

oil on canvas

10¾ x 22 in. (27.3 x 55.9 cm.)

Executed in 1867.

W.H. Sides, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Mrs. Donald W. Severn, Boca Raton, Florida
Graham Gallery, New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 0134 (acquired from the above on April 2, 1974)
Anthony F. Janson, "The Western Landscapes of Worthington Whittredge," American Art Review 3, no. 6, 1976, pp. 59-61, 64, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, 1987, p. 188
Anthony F. Janson, Worthington Whittredge, New York, 1989, pp. 115, 117, plate VII, n.p., illustrated

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019-21 (on loan)