Date
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Signed recto, bottom-right, on snow, in brown pigment: "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. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), n.p., cat. 278.
National Academy of Design, Eighty-Ninth Annual Exhibition, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: 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. (Chicago: 1916), 22, as Building the Coffer-Dam.
Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1916–1918, 6th ed. (Chicago: 1918), 11.
Donelson F. Hoopes, The American Imrpessionists, (New York: 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. (Philadelphia: Woodmere Art Museum, 2014), 104 (ill.).
New York, National Academy of Design, Eighty-Ninth Annual Exhibition, Dec. 19, 1914–Jan. 17, 1915, cat. 291.
Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936.
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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