SOLD Sunday after the Meeting, 1878
by James M. Hart (1828–1901)40¼ x 60 inches
Signed and dated lower left: James M. Hart. 1878
Provenance
Alexander Gallery, New York, New York
Private collection, acquired from above, 1981
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, January 19, 2024, lot 60, from above
Exhibited
(Probably) Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, ca. 1992 (on loan)
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida, A Wilder Image Bright: Hudson River School Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, January 31–March 28, 2004
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, Michigan, American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, May–August 2009
Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Georgia, Nature’s Banquet: 19th Century American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, January 21–March 30, 2010
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida, The American Spirit: Selections from the Manoogian Collection, October 15, 2016–January 8, 2017
Literature
Michael Kammen, Meadows of Memory: Images of Time and Tradition in American Art and Culture (Austin: University of Austin Press, 1992), 126, note 48.
Kevin Sharp, A Wilder Image Bright: Hudson River School Paintings from the Manoogian Collection (Vero Beach, FL: Vero Beach Museum of Art, 2004), 130–31, no. 33.
Related Works
Landscape with Hunter, oil on canvas, 16½ x 24⅝ inches; Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Peaceful Homes, 1868, oil on canvas, 51 x 93½ inches; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Morning in New England, 1873, oil on canvas, 20¼ x 34⅛ inches, signed and dated lower right; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
From Shifting Shade, 1887, oil on canvas, 36 x 54¼ inches, signed and dated lower left; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Artist Biography
A second-generation Hudson River School painter known for his pastoral and cattle scenes
I. Biography
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I. Biography
James McDougal Hart was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1828. His family moved to the United States when he was three years old, settling in Albany, New York. Years later, Hart apprenticed with a coach maker in Albany and learned the craft of panel and sign painting. In 1851, he went to Düsseldorf and studied briefly with
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