Lot 71
  • 71

* John W. Casilear 1811-1893

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Description

  • John William Casilear
  • North Conway
  • inscribed North Conway and dated August 12th '51, l.r.
  • pencil heightened with gouache on paper
  • 10 1/2 by 14 1/2 in.
  • (26.7 by 36.8 cm)

Provenance

The Old Print Shop, New York
Paul Magriel Collection
Acquired from the above, 1963

Exhibited

New York, The Finch College Museum of Art (no. 42); Southampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum (no. 48); New Orleans, Louisiana, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art; Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Museum of Art; Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum; New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allyn Museum (no. 46); Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art; Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design; Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, American Drawings (Benjamin West to the present) from the Paul Magriel Collection, June 1961-December 1962 (all as John F. Kensett)
Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, American Drawing Annual XIX, January-February 1962, no. 46, illustrated p. 8 (as John F. Kensett)
Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, American Painting: Selections from the Collection of Daniel and Rita Fraad, June-November 1964, no. 2, p. 8, illustrated (as John F. Kensett)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, John Frederick Kensett 1816-1872, September-October 1968, no. 13, illustrated (as John F. Kensett)

Literature

John I.H. Baur, "Portfolio of American Drawings," Art in America, no. 4, 1961, p. 73 (as John F. Kensett)
Theodore E. Stebbins, A History of American Drawings & Watercolors, New York, 1976 (as John F. Kensett)