Art of America
Art of America
Property from a Private Collection, Maine
Fitz Henry Lane
Northwesterly View of Mount Desert Rocks
Auction Closed
January 19, 07:25 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Maine
Fitz Henry Lane
1804 - 1865
Northwesterly View of Mount Desert Rocks
signed FH. Lane, dated Aug 1855, and titled (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20 by 33 ¼ in.
50.8 by 84.5 cm.
Executed in Gloucester in August 1855.
This work is recorded as inv. 275 in the Cape Ann Museum's Fitz Henry Lane Online project.
Alexander Gallery, New York
Samuel Holdsworth
Richard York Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in December 2001 by the present owner
John Wilmerding, The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters of the Maine Coast, Princeton, New Jersey 1994, fig. 47, pp. 54-55, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Rockland, Maine, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Inventing Arcadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert, 1999, fig. 61, p. 94, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Gloucester, Massachusetts, Cape Ann Historical Museum and New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries, 2007, fig. 4, p. 16, illustrated in color