Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936)
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Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936)

The Mill in the Flood, Giverny

Details
Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936)
The Mill in the Flood, Giverny
signed and dated 'T.E. Butler '10' (lower right)
oil on canvas
23½ x 28 1/8 in. (60 x 71.5 cm.)
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, California, by 1974.
Tom Snyder Collection, by 1985.
The Frigon Collection.
R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
R.J. Boyle, American Impressionism, Boston, Massachusetts, 1974, pp. 92, 119-20, illustrated
R.H. Love, Theodore Earl Butler: Emergence from Monet's Shadow, Chicago, Illinois, 1985, pl. 75, p. 338, illustrated
Exhibited
San Francisco, California, Maxwell Galleries, Theodore Earl Butler: American Impressionist, June-July 1972, no. 717, illustrated
Chicago, Illinois, R.H. Love Galleries, Theodore Earl Butler: Emergence from Monet's Shadow, January-February 1984, no. 16 (This exhibition also traveled extensively)
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Normandy and Its Artists Remembered: A 50th Anniversary of the Invasion, June-September 1994
Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art, American Images from the Turn of the Century: The Frigon Collection, December 1995-February 1996
Chicago, Illinois, R.H. Love Galleries, American Scenes of Yesteryear, December 1996-February 1997
Chicago, Illinois, R.H. Love Galleries, Theodore E. Butler: An American Impressionist, December 2000-January 2001

Lot Essay

This work will be included in Patrick Bertrand's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of Theodore Earl Butler.

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