Mount Kiarsarge
attributed to Charles Octavius Cole, American, 1814 - 1858
about 1850-1860
Oil on canvas
Overall: 22 × 28 1/4 in. (55.9 × 71.7 cm)
Frame: 27 1/2 × 33 in. (69.9 × 83.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
P.958.355
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed. Not dated.
Exhibition History
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven: Artists in the White Moutains, 1830-1930, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-October 30, 1988.
The New England Image: 19th Century Landscape from the College Collection, Carpenter Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 14-September 26, 1982.
Publication History
Robert L. McGrath and Barbara J. MacAdam, "A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven", Artists in the White Mountains 1830-1930, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, p. 47, no. 7.
Robert L. McGrath, The New England Image: 19th Century Landscape from the College Collection, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1982, pp. 28-29, no. 9.
Robert McGrath, Gods in Granite: The Art of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001, ill. p. 114, ill. no. 85.
Provenance
Raymond G. Clifton (1895-1968), Pine Cupboard Antique Shop, Franklin, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1958.
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