Date
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Signed recto, bottom-right, on snow, in brown paint: "Schofield.".
Dimensions
127 × 152.4 cm (50 × 60 in.)
Credit Line
Friends of American Art Collection
Reference Number
1914.821
Extended information about this artwork
Catalogue of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), n.p., cat. 278.
National Academy of Design, Eighty-Ninth Annual Exhibition, exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1914), cat. 291.
“Friends of American Art”, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 9, no. 1 (Jan. 1, 1915): 3, 11 (ill.), as Building the Coffer-Dam.
Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1914–1915, 5th ed. (1916), 22, as Building the Coffer-Dam.
Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1916–1918, 6th ed. (1918), 11.
Donelson F. Hoopes, The American Imrpessionists, (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1972), 138 (ill.).
Thomas Folk, The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism, exh. cat. (Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1984), cat. 2.
James D. W. Church, et al., Schofield: International Impresssionist, exh. cat. (Woodmere Art Museum, 2014), 104 (ill.).
Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism, Sept. 16–Nov. 27, 1984, cat. 2; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dec. 17, 1984–Feb. 10, 1985; Greensburg, PA, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Mar. 2–May 5, 1985; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, June 1–Sept. 2, 1985.
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