Moonlit Cove

Details

PAUL DOUGHERTY (1877-1947)
Moonlit Cove
signed and dated 'Paul Dougherty/1908' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 x 33 ¾ in. (91.4 x 85.7 cm.)
Painted in 1908.

Provenance

Henry Reinhardt, New York.
Acquired by the present owner, 1912.

Literature

Toledo Museum of Art, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, November 1913, p. 6, no. 15.
"Who's Who in Art," American Art Annual, vol. XIV, 1917, p. 473.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. VII, New York, 1929, p. 550.
S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 41, 172, pl. 131, illustrated.

Exhibited

Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings Acquired by the Toledo Museum, 1901-1951, 1951.
Findlay, Ohio, Findlay College, 22 American Paintings Lent by the Toledo Museum, 1949.
Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art; Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Fitchburg Art Museum; New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allyn Museum; New Britain, Connecticut, New Britain Museum of American Art; Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst College, Mead Art Museum, Paul Dougherty: A Retrospective Exhibition, March 16, 1978-February 20, 1979, p. 13, no. 19b.

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Lot Essay

Paul Dougherty was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1877 and trained as an artist at the Académie Julian in Paris. He is best known for coastal views and seascapes, dominated by Impressionistic, sweeping brushwork, as exemplified by Moonlit Cove. Other works by Dougherty can be found in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

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