Lot 138
  • 138

THOMAS EAKINS, Study for the Meadows, Gloucester, New Jersey

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • oil on panel

Provenance

Mrs. Thomas Eakins, until 1939 
Babcock Galleries, New York, until 1959
Leroy Davis, New York, 1959 (sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 29, 1990, lot 23, illustrated in color)
Acquired by the present owners at the above sale

Exhibited

Syracuse, New York, Everson Museum of Art, American Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Davis of New York City, 1960, no. 5
New York, Davis Gallery, A Private Collection II, 1966, no. 11
West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery and School of Art, In Nature's Ways: American Landscape Painting of the Late 19th Century, February-April 1987, no. 20

Literature

Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, New York, 1933, no. 163, p. 175 (as In the Country)
Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York 1974, p. 150, illustrated

Catalogue Note

This work is one of several studies for The Meadow, Gloucester, N.J., presently in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.