Lot 57
  • 57

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait 1819 - 1905

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
  • An Anxious Moment
  • signed A.F. Tait N.A. and dated 1882 (lower right); also inscribed N.D./"An Anxious Moment"/Early Morning/Raquette Lake/Adirondacks/N.Y./A.F. Tait/N.Y./1882 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 14 by 22 1/8 inches
  • (35.6 by 56.2 cm)

Provenance

F.M. Bird, Canton, Massachusetts, 1882 (acquired from the artist)
Frederick K. Barbour, Norfolk, Connecticut
Warren Barbour (his nephew), circa 1960s (gift from the above)

Exhibited

New York, Richard York Gallery, Sunset to Dawn: Views of Evening by Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Americans, October-November 1983

Literature

Warder H. Cadbury and Henry F. Marsh, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: Artist in the Adirondacks, Cranbury, New Jersey, 1986, no. 82.19, p. 261

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. Under UV: there are some spots of inpainting in the clouds across the upper register.
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