WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE | Kaaterskill Falls

Alice Warder Garrett, Baltimore, Maryland
Evergreen House Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland (gift from the above; sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., New York, November 18, 1976, lot 291)
Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
Alexander Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner, by 1980

University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School on Loan from a Friend of the Museum of Art, January-March 1981, no. 59, pp. 16, 118, 125, illustrated pp. 38, 119
Sarasota, Florida, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Worthington Whittredge, December 1989-January 1991, no. 21, p. 8 (as Kauterskill Clove)
Annville, Pennsylvania, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Passages: Images of Transition in 19th-Century American Landscape Painting, August-October 1995
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; New York, The National Academy, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, August 1997-September 1999, pp. 17, 132, illustrated p. 133
Fredericksburg, Virginia, University of Mary Washington Galleries, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, October-December 2005

Anthony Frederick Janson, Worthington Whittredge, New York, 1989, pp. 91-92, illustrated pl. VI

The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes, Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This work has been lined with a non-wax adhesive. The paint layer is stable, varnished and retouched. Although some of Whittredge's pigment reads quite strongly under ultraviolet light in the lower half of the picture, all of the foreground landscape including the trees on the left shows no retouches. There is a small group of cracks in the very distant mountains in the center that have been retouched, and another a small group of retouched cracks in the hill on the far right. In the sky, retouches addressing some cracking in the center and lower center are clearly visible under ultraviolet light. There is a 3 by 2 inch area of retouching in the upper right, which addresses a paint loss. There is no abrasion to the paint layer. Although the retouches are fairly numerous in some areas of the sky, the painting looks well and should be hung as is.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
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