Morning at Narragansett, 1872

Provenance

(Possibly) James Augustus Suydam

Private collection, Orange, Connecticut

Shannon’s, Milford, Connecticut, October 23, 2003, lot 73

Private collection, acquired from above

Private collection, New York, New York

Exhibited

(Possibly) Chicago Interstate Industrial Exposition, Illinois, 1875, no. 353

(Possibly) Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, Pennsylvania, 1876, no. 486

Literature

(Possibly) Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889), 93.

(Possibly) Jeffrey R. Brown, Alfred Thompson Bricher 1837-1908 (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1973), 52, 94.

Related Works

Narragansett Pier, 1871, oil on board, 8 x 14⅛ inches, signed lower right; New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Indian Rock, Narragansett Bay, 1871, oil on canvas, 27 5/16 x 50¼ inches, signed and dated lower right; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Note: This painting is likely the one owned by Luminist painter James Augustus Suydam (1819–1865) and exhibited at the Chicago Interstate Industrial Exposition of 1875 and Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876.

Narragansett is a seaside town in Rhode Island which Alfred Thompson Bricher visited on numerous occasions, creating sketches of the coastline.