About This Artwork

Henry Ward Ranger
American, 1858-1916

Brooklyn Bridge, 1899

Oil on canvas
72.4 x 91.8 cm (28 1/2 x 36 1/8 in.)
Signed, lower left: "Henry Ranger 99"
Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson, 1925.720

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Pa., Allentown Art Museum, Painting Progress, American Art and the Idea of Technology, 1800-1917 (October 11-December 31, 1991), Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes, checklist, no cat. no. or ill.

Springfield, Ill., Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth Century American Painters, March 5-April 24, 1966; traveled to Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19-June 5; Muscatine, Iowa, July 24-October 2; Peoria, Lakeview Center for the Art and Sciences, November 30, 1966-January 8, 1967.

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, Paris 1900: 'The American School' at the Universal Exposition, September 18, 1999-January 16, 2000; traveled to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, February 11-April 16, 2000; Columbus Museum of Art, May 18-August 13, 2000; Madison, Wisconsin, Elvehjem Museum of Art, September 16-December 3, 2000.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011), no. 87.