Untitled (Summer, Rhode Island Shore)

Provenance

Private collection, Rhode Island
Private collection, Rhode Island, acquired by descent
Private collection, New York

Literature

Anne Louise Avery, Authentication Analysis Letter, August 2, 2017.

Related Works

Landscape near Newport, R. I., ca. 1877-1878, oil on canvas, 12 1⁄8 x 26 inches, signed lower left: EM Bannister; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

The Hay Gatherers, 1893, oil on canvas, 17½ × 23½ inches, signed lower left: EM Bannister; Worcester Art, Worcester, Massachusetts

Palmer River, 1885, oil on canvas, 24 ¼ × 34 1⁄8 inches, signed and dated lower left: EM Bannister / 85; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Note

Edward Mitchell Bannister is known for his bucolic views of nature which often feature haystacks, waterfront shores, and softened, harmonic depictions of nature, similar to George Inness and other Hudson River contemporaries. Bannister was the first African American painter to win a national award, a bronze medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876.[1] Bannister was a founder and member of the Providence Art Club and was an original board member of the Rhode Island School of Design. His work is held in esteemed museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Walters Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, among others.

[1] National Museum of American Art, Sharing traditions: Five Black artists in nineteenth-century America: from the collections of the National Museum of American Art, (Museum by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985), 70