About This Artwork
Artist unknown
American, 19th century
New England Country Seat1800/20
Oil on yellow-poplar panel
58.6 x 91.8 cm (23 x 36 1/8 in.)
Gift of Robert Allerton, 1946.391
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Mason City, Iowa, Charles H. MacNider Museum, A Look at American Landscapes, Jan. 9–Feb. 19, 1966, cat. 1.
Publication History
A.C. Prime, The Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland and South Carolina, 1721–1785 (1929), p. 9.
Alice Ford, Pictorial Folk Art: New England to California (Studio Publications, 1949), p. 102 (ill.).
Dorothy Adlow, Christian Science Monitor Boston, June 7, 1952, p. 8 (ill.), as American Farm Scene.
Hans Huth, Nature and the American: Three Centuries of Changing Attitudes (University of California Press, 1957), p. 40, pl. 8.
Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 13.
Milo M. Naeve, “The Classical Presence in American Art,” Magazine Antiques 144, 3 (Sept. 1978), pp. 496–501 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, The Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), no. 21.
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), p. 116, fig. 21.
Ownership History
Robert Allerton, Chicago, by 1946; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.