The Squirrel

Arts of the Americas

1860s–70s

Seymour Joseph Guy (American, born England, 1824–1910)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Seymour Joseph Guy
Title: The Squirrel
Place: New York City (Object made in:)
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. 1860–1879
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom-left, on a fern, in brown paint: "S J Guy [in cypher]".
Dimensions: 51.3 × 35.6 cm (20 3/16 × 14 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1989.502
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With Alexander Gallery, New York, by 1989 [incoming receipt, RX18098, Nov. 13, 1989; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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