LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

29.76 in. (75.60 cm.) (height) by 44.02 in. (111.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'A.F. Tait/NY.52.' (lower right)--signed and dated again (on the reverse prior to lining)

Exhibited:

Easton, Pennsylvania, Lafayette College, Morris R. Williams Center for the Arts, Nineteenth Century American Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Arden, September-October 1983, p. 29, no. 36, illustrated.

Literature:

W.H. Cadbury and H.F. Marsh, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: Artist in the Adirondacks, Newark, Delaware, 1986, p. 122, no. 52.26, illustrated (as The Check).

Provenance:

Alexander Gallery, New York. Mrs. George J. Arden, New York. Christie's, New York, 22 May 1991, lot 46. Acquired by the present owner from the above.