South and North Moat Mountains

Provenance

Capricorn Galleries, Potomac, Maryland

Private collection, by 1979

Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, September 17, 2019, lot 106, from above

Private collection, acquired from above

Exhibited

(Possibly) Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, DC, Portraits of Places: A Survey of American Landscapes, March 8–April 3, 1979

William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Hudson River School, April–July 1979

Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School on Loan from a Friend of the Museum of Art, January–March 1981

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa, The American Landscape Tradition, November 7, 1982–January 9, 1983

All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, August 10–October 26, 1997; Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, January 20–May 17, 1998; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, March 13–June 27, 1999; The National Academy,  New York, New York, July 14–September 12, 1999

Literature

John Driscoll, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School on Loan from a Friend of the Museum of Art (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1981), 122, no. 2.

John Driscoll, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), 8.

Related Work (see following pages)

Moat Mountain, Intervale, New Hampshire, ca. 1862, oil on paper laid down on canvas, 19⅛ x 26⅛ inches; The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

Note: Moat Mountain is a mountain range in Carroll County, New Hampshire near the White Mountains. The South Moat and North Moat are two peaks along the main ridge. Albert Bierstadt visited the area on several occasions, sometimes with his brother, a photographer. Bierstadt would help his brother find scenic views to photograph while he sketched the scenery.