Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

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Property from an Important American Collector

Asher Brown Durand

Dance of the Haymakers (The Morning Ride)

Auction Closed

January 24, 06:07 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important American Collector

Asher Brown Durand

1796 - 1886


Dance of the Haymakers (The Morning Ride)

oil on canvas

35 by 54 in.

88.9 by 137.2 cm.

Executed in 1851.

Mr. Jasper Grosvenor, New York (commissioned from the artist)

Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York (acquired in 1946)

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (acquired in 1947)

Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York

Douglas B. Collins, Longmeadow, Massachusetts (acquired by 1971)

Vose Galleries, Boston

Private Collection, San Francisco (acquired from the above in September 1972)

Vose Galleries, Boston (acquired from the above in July 1979)

Acquired from the above in December 1979 by the present owner

John Durand, The Life and Times of A. B. Durand, New York, 1894, p. 174 (titled Morning Ride)

Bartlett Cowdrey, “Asher Brown Duran, 1796-1886,”Panorama, vol. 2, no. 2, New York, October 1946, n.p., illustrated

David B. Lawall, Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton, New Jersey, 1966, vol. 1, pp. xviii, 246-47 and 286, vol. 3, no. 276, p. 148, vol. 4, fig. 83, n.p., illustrated (titled Morning Ride)

David B. Lawall, Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York, 1978, no. 23, fig. 27, p. 22, illustrated (titled Morning Ride)

Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc: A Commemorative Catalogue, Boston, 1987, pp. 14-15

Exh. Cat., New York, Brooklyn Museum; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum; San Diego Museum of Art, Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, 2007, fig. 39, pp. 92-93, illustrated

New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, A. B. Durand, 1796-1886, October - November 1971, no. 63, pp. 61 and 97, illustrated (titled Morning Ride)

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