
Property from an Important American Collector
Dance of the Haymakers
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Property from an Important American Collector
Asher Brown Durand
1796 - 1886
Dance of the Haymakers
oil on canvas
36 by 54 ¾ in.
91.5 by 139 cm.
Executed in 1851.
Mr. Jasper Grosvenor, New York (commissioned from the artist)
Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York (acquired in 1946)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (acquired in 1947)
Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
Douglas B. Collins, Longmeadow, Massachusetts (acquired by 1971)
Vose Galleries, Boston
Private Collection, San Francisco (acquired from the above in September 1972)
Vose Galleries, Boston (acquired from the above in July 1979)
Acquired from the above in December 1979 by the present owner
Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, A. B. Durand, 1796-1886, October-November 1971, no. 63, pp. 61 and 97, illustrated (titled Morning Ride)
Vero Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Museum of Art, The American Spirit: Selections from the Manoogian Collection, October 2016-January 2017
John Durand, The Life and Times of A. B. Durand, New York 1894, p. 174 (titled Morning Ride)
Panorama, vol. II, 2 October 1946, p. 17
Walker Center Activities, vol. II, issue 5, February 1947, n.p. (titled Morning Ride)
David B. Lawall, Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, New Jersey 1966, vol. 1, pp. xviii, 246-47 and 286, vol. 3, no. 276, p. 148, vol. 4, fig. 83, illustrated (titled Morning Ride)
David B. Lawall, Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York and London 1978, no. 23, fig. 27, p. 22, illustrated (titled Morning Ride)
Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc: A Commemorative Catalogue, Boston 1987, pp. 14-15
Exh. Cat., New York, Brooklyn Museum (and traveling), Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, 2007, fig. 39, pp. 92-93, illustrated