Robert Havell Jr.

Daniel H. Farr, Co., New York, by March 23, 1935
Ehrich-Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1935
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1935

St. Paul, Minnesota, Women's City Club, 1953
Salt Lake City, Utah, The University of Utah, American Painting 1850, 1976

"A Landscape by Robert Havell, Jr.," The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Bulletin, May 4, 1935, p. 89, illustrated
Wolfgang Born, American Landscape Painting, New Haven, 1948, p. 51, fig. 31, illustrated
Catalogue of European Paintings in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1970, no. 33, p. 73, illustrated

Oil on canvas, canvas is lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from scattered dots of loss along lower edge, frame abrasion, surface dirt, a visible 4 inch repaired tear in the sky at left, and two visible spots of test cleaning in the sky. UNDER UV: Inpainting at the aforementioned tear, a 5 inch jagged line of inpaint at the horizon line to the left and a few small scattered dots of inpainting.
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