Details
Levi Wells Prentice (1851-1935)
View of Blue Mountain Lake
signed 'L.W. Prentice' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 44 in. (76.2 x 111.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1877-78.
Provenance
The artist.
Mr. Clarke, gift from the above.
Anna Clarke Greene, daughter of the above, by descent.
Percy Clarke Greene, Copenhagen, New York, by descent.
Private collection, by descent.
Grogan, Boston, Massachusetts, 24 March 1993, lot 33, sold by the above (as Panoramic View of a Lake in Autumn).
Raphael Gallery, New York, acquired from the above.
Godel & Co., Inc., New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1993.
Literature
(Probably) B.L. Jones, Nature Staged: The Landscape and Still Life Paintings of Levi Wells Prentice, exhibition catalogue, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, 1993, pp. 80, 92, no. 62 (as Blue Mountain Lake, Adirondacks from Merwin's or Panoramic View of a Lake in Autumn).
Exhibited
Charleston, South Carolina, Gibbes Museum of Art; Alexandria, Louisiana, Alexandria Museum of Art; Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art; Lakeland, Florida, Polk Museum of Art, Painting a Nation: Hudson River School Landscapes from the Higdon Collection, December 2, 2016-May 19, 2018, pp. 12, 29, fig. 4, pl. 8, illustrated.
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