Sailing at Sunset

Provenance

Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, New York, April 23, 1981, lot 28

Warner Collection of the Gulf States Paper Corp., Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York, New York, 2011

Exhibited

The Isabel Anderson Comer Museum, Sylacauga, Alabama, February 24–March 24, 1982

South Bend Art Center, Indiana, American Masterpieces from the Warner Collection, December 9, 1989–February 4, 1990

The Brazos Forum, Waco, Texas, America Comes of Age: Emerging Arts and Culture, Sixth Annual Brazos Forum, August 17–October 4, 1990

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, Impressions of America: The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, June 18–July 28, 1991

Literature

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 218, no. 79.

Related Works

Off Shore: After the Storm, ca. 1861–1863, oil on canvas, 30⅛ x 50⅛ inches, signed lower left; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Sailing off the Coast, 1869, oil on canvas, 15 x 29 inches; The White House, Washington, DC