About This Artwork

Theodore Robinson
American, 1852-1896

The Valley of Arconville, c. 1887

Oil on canvas
45.8 x 55.7 cm (18 x 21 7/8 in.)
Signed, lower right: "TH. ROBINSON"
Friends of American Art Collection, 1941.11

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, Society of American Artists, Eleventh Exhibition, May 13-June 15, 1889, no. 119.

San Francisco, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, February 20-December, 1915, no. 2668 as Le Val Arconville: Eure.

Washington, D.C., Museum of Modern Art Gallery, A Century of American Painting, March 1939, as Val Arconville.

Los Angeles Museum, The Development of Impressionism, January 12-February 28, 1940, no. 76 as Valley, Arconville.

Brooklyn Museum, Special Exhibition of Theodore Robinson, November 12-January 5, 1947, no. 238, ill. ix.

Indiana, South Bend Art Association, American Painting in the Manner of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries, February 10-March 31, 1948, no. 44 as The Vale of Arconville.

Milwaukee-Downer College, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists 1851-1951, February 13-March 23, 1951, no. 7 as Val D’Arcouville.

New York, American Federation of Arts, Monet and the GiverN.Y. Group, Dayton Art Institute, January 6-February 12, 1961, no. 27 as the Vale of Arconville; traveled to Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, March 11-April 5; Tucson, Ariz., University of Arizona Museum of Art, April 19-May 10; Reno, University of Nevada, October 21-November 11; San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery, November 30-December 23; Atlanta Art Association, January 7-28, 1962.

Madison, University of Wisconsin, Memorial Union Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Theodore Robinson, 1852-1896, October 29-November 10, 1964, no. 11, ill. no. 14 as The Vale of Arconville.

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors by Theodore Robinson, November 1-December 15, 1966, cat. no. 41.

Baltimore Museum of Art, Theodore Robinson, 1852-1896, May 1-June 10, 1973, no. 22, ill.; traveled to The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, July 12-August 26; Worcester Art Museum, September 19-October 28; Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Art Museum, November 19-December 23; Utica, N.Y., Musnon-Williams-Proctor Institute, January 20-February 24, 1974.

Albi, France, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors Impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-August 31, 1980, no. 53, ill. p. 62.

Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, "An American Impressionist: Theodore Robinson in Giverny" exhibition to be held at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 17 October 2004 – 9 January 2005, Phoenix Art Museum, from 4 February – 8 May 2005 and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT from 4 June – 4 September 2005.

Publication History

D.F. Hoopes, The American Impressionists (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1972), p. 48, pl. 15.

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).

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. 47.

Ownership History

Arthur A. Carey, Waltham, Mass., by 1889. M. Knoedler and Co., New York, by 1908; Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 1908; M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1931; sold to the Art Institute, 1941.