Looking Out to Sea

Details

John George Brown (1831-1913)
Looking Out to Sea
signed and dated 'J.G. Brown. N.A./1880.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 1880.

Provenance

Skinner, Bolton, Massachusetts, 8 November 1979, lot 81.
J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1980.

Literature

(Possibly) "Pictures," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 17, 1880, p. 4.

Exhibited

(Possibly) Brooklyn, New York, 40th Brooklyn Art Association Exhibition, May 1880.

Lot Essay

We would like to thank Martha Hoppin for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.

Possibly referencing the present work, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle described J.G. Brown's Looking Out to Sea following an exhibition of the Brooklyn Art Association as "a country lad and little sister standing on the edge of a cliff in the breeze and apparently enjoying with childish glee the prospect before them." (May 17, 1880, p. 4)

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