About This Artwork

George Hitchcock
American, 1850-1913

The Annunciation, 1887

Oil on canvas
158.8 x 204.5 cm (62 1/2 x 80 1/2 in.)
Signed, lower left: "Goe Hitchcock/ op xxxvi 1887"
Potter Palmer Collection, 1930.1289

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Sept. 29-Dec. 17, 1989, cat. 166; traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Feb. 1-Apr. 15, 1990, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, New York Historical Society, Sept. 5-Nov. 15, 1990.

Publication History

Annette Blaugrund, “American Artists at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris,” Magazine Antiques 136, 5 (Nov. 1989), pp. 1158-69, pl. ix.

Piri Halasz, “Exhibition Reviews: Paris 1889,” Art Journal 49, 3 (Fall 1990), pp. 306-09.

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).

Ownership History

George Hitchcock, Egmond-aan-Zee, Holland, 1887; Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago, 1890; bequeathed to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1930.