Object Information
William Bradford
American, 1823-1892
The Coast of Labrador, 1866
Oil on canvas
72 x 113.3 cm (28 3/8 x 44 5/8 in.)
Signed and dated lower right: "Wm Bradford/1866"
Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund, 1983.529
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
A Record of Sharing (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 21 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1983–1984 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 37, fig. 30.
Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Little, Brown and Company, 1988), p. 86 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 202-04, no. 93.
Richard C. Kugler, William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas (University of Washington Press, 2003), pp. 14–15, fig. 11.
Ownership History
Henry H. Brooks, Boston, by 1981; Alfred J. Walker, Boston, 1981; Vose Galleries, Boston, 1981; Alfred T. Morris, Providence, Rhode Island, 1981; Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington D.C., 1983; Marshall Field, Chicago, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.