Barn Interior
Alvan T. Fisher, American, 1792 - 1863
1832
Oil on composition board
Overall: 11 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (29.8 × 24.8 cm)
Frame: 16 1/2 × 15 in. (41.9 × 38.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
P.974.49
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower center: A. Fisher / 1832; label on reverse [from Vose Galleries?]: BARN INTERIOR / BY ALVAN FISHER / (1792-1863) $1,750; stamped on reverse and on frame: FROM / VOSE GALLERIES / OF BOSTON, INC. / 238 NEWBURY ST.; in graphite, on reverse: 20; (in different, more recent? hand): ALVAN FISHER #23749 / 11 3/4 x 9 3/4
Exhibition History
Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 12, 1980-July 14, 1981.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1, 1993-March 10, 1996.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 28, 2000-April 17, 2001.
Seeking the Realization of a Dream: The Paintings of Alvan Fisher, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, May 13- October 21, 2001.
Publication History
Fred B. Adelson, Introduction, Jennifer Yunginger Madden, Catalogue, Seeking the Realization of a Dream: The Paintings of Alvan Fisher, Sandwich: Trustees of the Heritage Plantation, 2001, p.20, ill. p. 21
Provenance
Estate of John Jeffries, Boston; to private collection, Wellesley, Massachusetts; to Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection 1974.
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