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ROBERT LEWIS REID (1862-1929)
Reverie
signed and dated 'Robert Reid 90' (lower right)
oil on panel
12 x 20 in. (30.5 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1890.
Provenance
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 14 March 1968, lot 66.
Dr. and Mrs. John J. McDonough, Youngstown, Ohio, acquired from the above.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 22 March 1978, lot 30, sold by the above.
The Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan, by 1989.
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008.
Literature
D. Pilgrim, "The National Gallery's Impressionist Show," American Art Review, vol. I, no. 2, January-February 1974, p. 76, illustrated.
H.B. Weinberg, "Robert Reid: Academic 'Impressionist'," Archives of American Art Journal, vol. XV, no. 1, 1975, pp. 10-11, illustrated.
D. de Froment, L.Lewis, eds., Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby Parke Bernet 1977-78, New York, 1978, p. 143, fig. 7, illustrated.
W.H. Gerdts, American Impressionism, New York, 1984, p. 182.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum; Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, American Impressionist Painting, July 1, 1973-April 29, 1974, pp. 30, 109, no. 45, illustrated.
New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans Museum of Art; San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, A Panorama of American Painting: The John J. McDonough Collection, April 18, 1975-October 31, 1976, pp. 46, 92, no. 43, fig. 34, illustrated.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Mural Sketches and Impressionist Paintings by Robert Reid, November 20, 1976-January 10, 1977.
Elkhart, Indiana, Midwest Museum of American Art, Panorama of American Art, May 1979.
Elkhart, Indiana, Midwest Museum of American Art, 20th Century American Masters, May 1982.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, June 4, 1989-May 27, 1990, pp. 144-45, no. 52, illustrated.
Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland, Villa Favorita, American Impressionism: Masterworks from Public and Private Collections in the United States, July 22-October 28, 1990, pp. 112-13, no. 45, illustrated.
New York, Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Impressionism in America: The Ten American Painters, May 18-June 28, 1991, p. 129, fig. 40, illustrated.
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Atlanta, Georgia, The High Museum of Art, A Private View: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, April 3, 1993-March 6, 1994, pp. 18-19, illustrated.
Sapporo, Japan, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Shiga, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art; Yokote, Japan, The Akita Museum of Modern Art; Japan, Tokuyama City Museum of Art History; Yokohama, Japan, Sogo Museum of Art, From the Hudson River School to Impressionism: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, July 5, 1997-February 1, 1998, pp. 144-45, no. 50, illustrated.
Memphis, Tennessee, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Celebrate America: 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, February 7-April 18, 1999, pp. 98-99, no. 40, illustrated.
Vero Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Masters of Light: Selections of American Impressionism from the Manoogian Collection, January 30-April 23, 2006, pp. 30-31, no. 4, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1862 and studied at the Philips Academy from 1880-84. He subsequently spent three years in Paris studying at the Académie Julian before returning to the United States to teach at the Art Students League in New York. In 1897, he joined the Ten American Painters, developing his signature Impressionistic style. Reid is best known for his stunning landscapes, often including beautiful women, as in the present work.

Reverie, a "vigorously brushed, sun-dappled scene was painted in 1890, a year after Reid's return to America from studying in Paris. In its broken color and immediacy, it suggests the influence of French Impressionism...Reverie is one of the few known works executed between Reid's return to New York and beginning of his commitment to mural work in 1892." (N.R. Shaw, in N. Cikovsky, Jr., ed., Celebrate America: 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, exhibition catalogue, Memphis, Tennessee, 1999, p. 98)

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