MAG Collection - Outlet of Lake George

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Outlet of Lake George

ca. 1840
21 3/4 x 30 in. (55.2 x 76.2 cm)

Jacob C. Ward
United States (Bloomfield, NJ, 1809 - 1891, Bloomfield, NJ)

Object Type: Painting

Medium and Support: Oil on canvas

Credit Line: Marion Stratton Gould Fund

Accession Number: 1947.19

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Location: Not currently on view

Provenance

Artist; James Homer, Esq., by April 1840; Arthur Kocian, St. Louis, MO; Ferargil, Inc., New York, NY, by 1946; purchased by the Gallery in 1947

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American art

19th century

landscapes

1800-1900

paintings

movement

trees in art

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Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Sport in Art Albright-Knox Art Gallery 1/23/1948 - 2/22/1948
Interiors Then & Now Memorial Art Gallery 10/13/1950 - 00/00/00
In Focus: A Look at Realism in Art 12/28/1964 - 1/31/1965
American Paintings from Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery Memorial Art Gallery 1/13/1967 - 5/14/1967
Landscapes from the permanent collection Memorial Art Gallery 3/10/1973 - 4/29/1973
The Fine Art of Painting Conservation 4/13/1982 - 5/13/1982
North Country Landscape Potsdam College of the State University of New York 10/3/1986 - 12/7/1986
A Wild Sort of Beauty: Public Places and Private Visions The Adirondack Museum 5/25/1992 - 10/15/1992
Painting Lake George, 1774-1900 The Hyde Collection Art Museum 6/6/2005 - 9/11/2005

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
Article Title: Lake George. Article Scope: Article. The New Yorker. New York, New York: F. R. Pub. Corp. Volume Number: IX, Issue Number: 6. Issue Date: April 25, 1840. Page Number: 81
A Wild Sort of Beauty: Public Places and Private Visions. Blue Mountain Lake, New York: The Adirondack Museum, 1992.
Article Author: Anderson, Patricia A. . Article Title: New York's North Country and the American Imagination: An Historical Perspective. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. North Country Landscape. Postsdam, NY: Potsdam College, 1986. Page Number: 7-15, Figure Number: 10
Article Title: Our Landscape Painters. Article Scope: Article. New York Mirror: A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts. New York, NY: G. P. Morris Volume Number: XVIII, Issue Number: 5. Issue Date: July 25, 1840. Page Number: 38
Article Title: Census of Nineteenth-Century Paintings of Lake George. Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Erin Budis Coe and Gwendolyn Owens. Painting Lake George. Glens Falls, NY: The Hyde Collection, 2005. Page Number: 39, 86, Figure Number: Plate 11, p.39
Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006.

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This object is a member of the following portfolios:

1800 - 1900

19th Century American Art

All Paintings

Landscapes

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Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts Examines seven 19th century artworks in the Memorial Art Gallery, with questions and hands-on exercises for students.