About This Artwork

Arthur Wesley Dow
American, 1857-1922

Boats at Rest, c. 1895

Oil on canvas
66 x 91.4 cm (26 x 36 in.)
Signed, lower left: "Arthur W. Dow"
Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection, 1990.394

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art "Arthur Wesley Dow and The American Arts and Crafts Movement" Oct. 8, 1999-Jan. 7, 2000.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago," November 7, 2009-January 31, 2010, cat. 37.

Publication History

The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1990–1991 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1991), p. 16, fig. 10.

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. 289-91, no. 146.

Ownership History

Private collection, New England, to 1990; Spanierman Gallery, New York, 1990; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.