The Woodland Pool

Details

HENRY WARD RANGER (1858-1916)
The Woodland Pool
signed and indistinctly dated 'H.W. Ranger. 1894.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1894.

Provenance

Elsie C. Mershon, Saginaw, Michigan.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1926.

Literature

The Toledo Museum of Art News, no. 56, April 1930, n.p., illustrated.
S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 93, 171, pl. 127, illustrated.

Exhibited

South Bend, Indiana, South Bend Art Association, Group of 15 American Paintings Lent by the Toledo Museum, 1949.
Morehead, Kentucky, Kentucky State College Art Gallery, 15 Paintings Lent by Modern American Artists, Lent by the Toledo Museum at the Opening of the College, 1949, no. 4.
Findlay, Ohio, Findlay College, 22 American Paintings Lent by the Toledo Museum, 1949.

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Lot Essay

The present work "illustrates the characteristic qualities of the best of Ranger's canvases. More decorative than naturalistic, with brilliant color enhanced by a peculiar ability to match a multitude of high-lights, it is yet as poetic as Corot, with whose work Ranger's has often been compared." (The Toledo Museum of Art News, no. 56, April 1930, n.p.)

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