Bridge in Moonlight

Arts of the Americas

c. 1890

Louis Michel Eilshemius
American, 1864–1941

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Louis Michel Eilshemius
Title: Bridge in Moonlight
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. 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: "Eilshemus"
Dimensions: 36.5 × 52.1 cm (14 3/8 × 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richman Proskauer
Reference Number: 1953.25

Paul Johnson Karlstrom, “Louis Michel Eilshemius, 1864–1941, A Monograph and Catalogue,” (Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1973), p.17 (vol. 2).

Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Binghampton, University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Nineteenth Century Painters of the Delaware Valley, Jan. 21–Feb. 13, 1983; Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Mar. 12–Apr. 24, 1983, cat. 18, as Moonlight on the Delaware Water Gap.

The artist, New York, to c. 1931; Valentine Gallery, New York (possibly), 1931-unknown. Unknown-1936, Joseph Proskauer, New York; 1936-1953, Richman Proskauer, New York; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.

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