LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.50 in. (59.70 cm.) (height) by 19.76 in. (50.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'D. Johnson. 1860' (lower right)--signed and dated again and inscribed with title (on a piece of the original stretcher)

Exhibited:

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, October 4, 1981-September 26, 1982, pp. 17-18, 145-46, fig. 3, illustrated. Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, March 29-September 8, 1985, pp. 18, 140, 179, 270, pl. 12, no. 113, illustrated.

Literature:

J.I.H. Baur, " '.. the exact brushwork of Mr. David Johnson,' An American Landscape Painter, 1827–1908," The American Art Journal, vol. 12, Autumn 1980, pp. 46, 48, fig. 23, illustrated. "An American Perspective: Nineteenth Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr.,"The Magazine Antiques, vol. 121, January 1982, p. 260, illustrated. P.H. Simpson, So Beautiful An Arch: Images of the Natural Bridge, 1787-1890, exhibition catalogue, Lexington, Virginia, 1982, p. 38. R. Tyler, Visions of America: Pioneer Artists in a New Land, New York, 1983, p. 201, illustrated. K.J. Avery et. al, American Paradise: The World of Hudson River School, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1987, pp. 272, 274n7, fig. 1, illustrated. J.I.H. Bauer et. al, Meditations on Nature: The Drawings of David Johnson, exhibition catalogue, Yonkers, New York, 1987, p. 41. G. Owens, Nature Transcribed: The Landscapes and Still Lifes of David Johnson (1827–1908), exhibition catalogue, Ithica, New York, 1988, pp. 23-24. A. Kazin, A Writer's America: Landscape and Literature, New York, 1988, pp. 12-13, illustrated. C.C. Eldredge et. al, American Originals: Selections from Reynolda House, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1990, pp. 58-59, illustrated.

Provenance:

Sale: Ortgies & Co., New York, Paintings in Oil, by David Johnson, N.A. To be sold by Auction..at Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 13-14 February 1890. Charles F. Gunther, Chicago, Illinois. Y.M.C.A., Chicago, Illinois. Sally Turner Gallery, Plainfield, New Jersey. Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc., acquired from the above, 1974. Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., Los Angeles, California, acquired from the above, 1975. Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York. Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1992.