THOMAS WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE (1820-1910)
THOMAS WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE (1820-1910)
THOMAS WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE (1820-1910)
THOMAS WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE (1820-1910)
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THOMAS WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE (1820-1910)

Landscape Near Minden, Germany

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THOMAS WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE (1820-1910)
Landscape Near Minden, Germany
signed and dated 'W. Whittredge/1855' (lower right)
oil on canvas
52 ½ x 66 ½ in. (133.4 x 168.9 cm.)
Painted in 1855.
Provenance
Philip Wyman, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rufus B. Smith, Dorothy Catherwood and Frances Lea, Cincinnati, Ohio, by 1983.
Hirschl & Adler, Galleries, Inc., New York, 1984.
Shearson-Lehman Collection, New York, by 1989.
Literature
Bulletin of Rhode Island School of Design, vol. 63, no. 5, 1977, p. 36n15.
R. Reif, "Auctions: American art in 2 sales," New York Times, December 2, 1983, p. C23.
M.D. Zellman, 300 Years of American Art, vol. I, Secaucus, New Jersey, 1986, p. 190.
A.F. Janson, Worthington Whittredge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1989, pp. 48-49, 118, 129, pl. 1, illustrated.
Exhibited
Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Albany, New York, Albany Institute of History and Art; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Worthington Whittredge Retrospective, October 12, 1969-March 8, 1970, p. 30, no. 7, illustrated.
Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, Worthington Whittredge, December 8, 1989-August 5, 1990.

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Lot Essay

According to Anthony F. Janson, the present work is "perhaps the most ambitious work undertaken by Whittredge while he was in Düsseldorf...showing a view in the Weser mountains, which was completed by April 1855." (Worthington Whittredge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1989, pp. 47-48)

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