The Northwest Wind

Arts of the Americas

1914

Charles Harold Davis
American, 1856–1933

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Charles Harold Davis
Title: The Northwest Wind
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.: 1914
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 125.7 × 100.3 cm (49 1/2 × 39 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1924.907

Lorinda Munson Bryant, American Pictures and Their Painters (John Lane, 1912), 144, fig. 105 (ill.).
Catalogue of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), n.p., cat. 86.
“American Art Exhibition,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 9, 1 (January 1, 1915), 4–5.
A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute, 1925), 133, cat. 902.
Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), 117.
Donelson F. Hoopes, The American Impressionists (Watson–Guptill, 1972) p. 108 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty–Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 3–Dec. 6, 1914, cat. 86 (awarded the Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal).
San Francisco, Department of Fine Arts, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, June 2–Sept. 6, 1915, cat. 3160.
Chicago, Quadrangle Club of the University of Chicago, “Paul Schulze Collection,” Apr. 16– Dec. 13, 1923.
New York, MacBeth Gallery, Davis Memorial Exhibition, Mar. 27–Apr. 16, 1934; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery, May 2–June 24, 1934.

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