On the Bank

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

c. 1915

Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874–1939)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Frederick Carl Frieseke
Title: On the Bank
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1915
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom-right, on grass, in blue pigment: “F. C. Frieseke”.
Dimensions: 102.8 × 146 cm (40 1/2 × 57 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Friends of American Art Collection
Reference Number: 1916.439
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Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1916), 166.
Friends of American Art Year Book, 1916-1918, 6th ed. (Chicago: 1918), 9, 16 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 137, cat. 385.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Exhibition of Forty Paintings presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 14.
Moussa M. Domit, American Impressionist Painting, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1973), 83, cat. 25 (ill.).
Ben L. Summerford, The Last Expatriate: Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939), exh. cat. (Fayetteville, n.p., cat. 12.
Niigata Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], exh. cat. (Nagaoka, Japan: Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 1994), 158–159, cat. 52 (ill.).
Nicholas Kilmer and Linda McWhorter, Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist, exh. cat. (Savannah, GA: Telfair Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 36, 167, cat. 43 (ill.).

Milwaukee Art Institute, Exhibition of Forty Paintings presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 14.
Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Dec. 1944–Feb. 1945, no cat.
South Bend, IN, South Bend Art Association, American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948, cat.
Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Scott Hall, Apr. 2–9, 1954, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois: In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, June 15–Sept. 8, 1968, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, American Impressionist Painting, July 1–Aug. 26, 1973, cat. 25; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sept. 18–Nov. 2, 1973; Cincinnati Art Museum, Dec. 15, 1973–Jan. 31, 1974; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mar. 8–Apr. 29, 1974.
Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, The Last Expatriate: Frederick Carl Frieseke, Apr.–May 1980; cat. 12; Hickory, NC, Hickory Museum of Art; Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art; Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum; Greensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Art Gallery; Wilmington, NC, St. John’s Art Gallery.
Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20–Mar. 29, 1994, cat. 52; Nagoya, Japan, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art, Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist, Mar. 20–June 3, 2001, cat. 43; Memphis, TN, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, June 23–Aug. 19, 2001; San Diego Museum of Art, Sept. 8–Nov. 11, 2001; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Dec. 8, 2001–Feb. 3, 2002.

The artist; by exchange and partially sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1916 [Institutional Archives, Ledger Book 1900-1913, 283; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1916.

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