New England Hills

Maker(s)
Artist: Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925)
Historical period(s)
1901
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
H x W: 83.8 x 101.6 cm (33 x 40 in)
Geography
United States
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1906.80a-b
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Painting
Type

Oil painting

Keywords
landscape, United States
Provenance

To 1901
N.E. Montross (1849-1932), New York, NY, to 1901 [1]

From 1901 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from N.E. Montross in 1901 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] Purchased by Charles Lang Freer from N. E. Montross, New York, on August 19, 1901(see Curatorial Remark 6, Linda Merrill, May 1989, in the object record). See also, Voucher for May 1906, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Previous Owner(s)

N. E. Montross (C.L. Freer source) 1849-1932
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919

Published References
  • Nina Gray Suzanne Smeaton. Within Gilded Borders: The Frames of Stanford White. vol. 7, no. 2 Washington, Spring 1993. p. 40, fig. 12.
  • Linda Merrill. An Ideal Country: Paintings by Dwight William Tryon in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington and Hanover and London, 1990. cat. 24, pp. 132-135.
Collection Area(s)
American Art
Web Resources
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