About This Artwork
John Ritto Penniman
American, c. 1782-1841
Meetinghouse Hill, Roxbury, Massachusetts1799
Oil on canvas
73.6 x 94 cm (29 x 37 in.)
Centennial Year Acquisition and Centennial Year Major Acquisition funds, 1979.1461
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 115-117, no. 43.
Angela Miller, “Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), pp. 40-59, fig. 2.