Landscape, c. 1912

Not on View

Medium

oil on composition board

Dimensions

overall: 19.05 × 24.13 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)

framed: 42.55 × 47.63 × 4.13 cm (16 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 1 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Joan B. Detweiler)

Accession Number

2015.19.93

Artists / Makers

Morton Livingston Schamberg (painter) American, 1881 - 1918

Image Use

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Provenance

Possibly (Downtown Gallery, New York); Joan B. Detweiler [Mrs. F.H. Detweiler];[1] gift 11 June 1962 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Corcorcan Gallery accession notes, in NGA curatorial files. Mrs. Detweiler acquired the work through Mrs. Edith Gregor Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, New York.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Detweiler, Joan B.
Downtown Gallery

Exhibition History

1963: Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 October - 29 December 1963, no catalogue, as by Charles Sheeler.

1978: The American Landscape Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, unpublished checklist, as by Charles Sheeler.

1986: The Advent of Modernism: Post-Impressionism in North American Art, 1900-1918, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 5 March - 11 May 1986,

1997: Charles Sheeler in Doylestown: American Modernism and the Pennsylvania Tradition, Allentown Art Museum, 2007, as Tree in Landscape by Charles Sheeler.

Bibliography

1966: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 118, as by Charles Sheeler.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 316, repro.