Morning Glory

Provenance

J. B. Weir

Reinhardt Gallery, New York, New York

Mrs. George W. Mixter

Mrs. Mason Partridge

LeRoy Ireland, 1951

Tullah and Thomas Edward Hanley, Bradford, Pennsylvania, 1952

Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, New York, by 1969 (as Morning Glow)

Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, California, by 1973 (as Morning Glow)

Robert Rice Gallery, Houston, Texas (as Landscape)

Private collection, Houston, Texas

Exhibited

(Probably) Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, California, American Painting: A Comprehensive Exhibition, February 23–April 7, 1973

Literature

One Hundred Recent Acquisitions by American Artists: Spring–Summer, 1969 (New York: Bernard Danenberg Galleries, 1969), 8, no. 11.

(Probably) American Painting: A Comprehensive Exhibition (San Francisco: Maxwell Galleries, 1973), 33.

Note

This painting has been authenticated and catalogued by the University of Nebraska Inventory as NBI-173.

George Weber Mixter (1876–1947) was a major and then colonel with the U.S. Army Air Service, as well as a businessman in New York and Philadelphia.

LeRoy Ireland (1889–1970) was an art dealer and artist who conducted the research for the 1965 catalogue raisonné of George Inness (1825–1894).

Thomas Edward Hanley (1893–1969) had a notable collection of books and seventeenth through twentieth-century artwork, including some of the most celebrated European masters as well as American painters like Winslow Homer (1836–1910) and Theodore Robinson (1852–1896). Tullah Hanley (d. 1992) was an active arts patron and philanthropist.