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George Hitchcock 1850-1913
Description
- George Hitchcock
- Dutch Bride
- signed G. Hitchcock, l.r.
- oil on canvas
- 30 by 24 in.
- (76.2 by 61 cm)
- Painted circa 1895-98.
Provenance
R. Gordon Barton, The Sporting Gallery, Middleburg, Virginia (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, 1976
The Sporting Gallery, Middleburg, Virginia, 1978
Marty Abram, Los Angeles, California, 1978
Steve Martin, Beverly Hills, California, by 1979
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, 1979 (gift from the above)
Acquired by the present owner, 1992
Exhibited
Paris, France, Société des Artistes Français, Salon, 1899, p. 2, no. 990 (as La Fiancée Hollandaise)
Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century, December 1976- May 1977, no. 22, illustrated pl. 13 (as In Brabant)
Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum; Evanston, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art; Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Henry Art Gallery, Down Garden Paths: The Floral Environment in American Art, 1983, p. 58, illustrated in color pl. 64 (as In Brabant)
Literature
Paul Desjardins, "Les Salons de 1899," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, July 1899, p. 40
Aileen Hammond, "George Hitchcock-Painter of Sunlight: The Rediscovered American Impressionist," Spinning Wheel, October 1974, illustrated p. 12 (as The Bride)
William H. Gerdts, "American Expatriate Painters of the Late Ninetheenth Century: Exhibition Review," American Art Review, July 1977, p. 50, illustrated in color p. 42 (as In Brabant)
"American Art," LACMA Report 1979-1981, 1982, p. 20, illustrated pp. 16-17 (as In Brabant)
Annette Stott, "American Painters Who Worked in the Netherlands, 1880-1914," Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University, 1986, pp. 146-47, illustrated p. 431 (as In Brabant)
Annette Stott, "Dutch Utopia: Paintings by Antimodern American Artists of the Nineteenth Century," Smithsonian Studies in American Art, 1989, vol. 3, pp. 52-3, illustrated (as in Brabant)
Ilene Susan Fort and Michael Quick, American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, 1991, pp. 214-215, illustrated