LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

35.98 in. (91.40 cm.) (height) by 54.02 in. (137.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed G.H. Durrie and dated 1860 (lower left)

Exhibited:

Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art; New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven Colony Historical Society, George. Henry Durrie (1820-1863): American Winter Landscapist: Renowned Through Currier and Ives , December 1977-July 1978, no. 196, pp. 94, 95, 117, 147, 223, pp. 94, 117, 147, 223, illustrated fig. 113, p. 111. Shreveport, Louisiana, R.W. Norton Art Gallery, . A Winter Wonderland , December 1979

Literature:

James Fenimore Cooper, . The Pioneers , New York, 1964, cover illustration. "American Paintings in the Collection of the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts," . The Magazine . Antiques , November 1982, p. 1056, illustrated

Provenance:

Mrs. W. Murray Crane, New York. Gift to the present owner from the above, 1947