Collection Highlights
Tammany Bank
ca. 1875
1937.1237
Iron, paint
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Harbor Island, Lake George, N.Y.
Title
Harbor Island, Lake George, N.Y.
Date
1872
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 17 x 24 in. ( 43.2 x 61 cm )
frame: 26 1/4 x 33 7/8 x 2 3/4 in. ( 66.7 x 86 x 7 cm )
Credit Line
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number
1932.22
Marks
inscription: inscribed on stretcher, in pencil: "Deers/Leap/Lake/George, N.Y."
Framer's label: 'Thos. A. wilmurt / Mirrors and Picture Frames / 54 E. 13th St., New York.' (Thomas A. Wilmurt was listed in the New York City directory at 54 East 13th Street from 1866-1894).
Sale stamp: On reverse of canvas: 'Durand / Sale / 1887.' Durand Sale (Ortgies), 1887, no. 345, Harbor Island, Lake George (23 1/2 x 16 inches). The auction number, '345' in chalk is on the stretcher. The Durand Sale catalog lists no. 347 as 'Deer's Leap, and Bloomer Mt. , Lake George (23 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches).
Provenance
The artist and his family.
Bibliography
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887, p. 26, no. 345.
Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, pp. 262-3, 381-5, 664-5, Figs. 136-7.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 189-90.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 360.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
