Road-Side View (View in Wisconsin)

Provenance

The artist

[With] American Art-Union, New York, New York, December 1850

Samuel Bingham, Windham, Connecticut, acquired from above

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York

J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York

Private collection

Sale, Scottsdale Art Auction, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 2, 2005, lot 125

Knobloch family collection, Wilson, Wyoming

Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, May 17, 2022, lot 74, from above

Literature

Bulletin of the American Art-Union 10 (December 31, 1850): 171, no. 175.

John Francis McDermott, Seth Eastman: Pictorial Historian of the Indian (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961), 232, no. 56.

Note

Seth Eastman exhibited his work at the American Art-Union, an organization founded in 1838 to promote contemporary American art. Members paid an annual fee in exchange for a publication and an engraving after a featured painting. In 1850, Eastman’s Road-Side View (View in Wisconsin) was included in the Union’s annual raffle, presented alongside hundreds of works by leading American artists such as Thomas Doughty and Sanford Robinson Gifford. He also showed his paintings at the National Academy and the Washington Art Association. Today, Eastman’s works are held in major collections across the country, including the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Joslyn Art Museum.

Carl W. Knoblock Jr., an avid art collector and dedicated environmental conservationist, acquired works by artists such as Eastman, who shared his deep appreciation for the awe-inspiring landscapes of the American West.