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THOMAS WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE (1820-1910)

Lot 211
18.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 300 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1119078
Lot 211 | THOMAS WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE (1820-1910)
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$ 300 000 – 500 000
THOMAS WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE (1820-1910)

A Wagon Train on the Plains, Platte River, Colorado

oil on canvas

11 x 21 ¾ in. (27.9 x 55.2 cm.)

Painted circa 1866.





Provenance

The artist.

(Probably) Sale: Artist's Fund Society, New York, 21 December 1866, lot 14, sold by the above.

(Probably) H.B. Turner, acquired from the above.

Private collection, Englewood, New Jersey, 1903.

Private collection, by descent, 1985.

Christie's, New York, 5 December 1986, lot 40, sold by the above.

Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

"Our Third Annual Winter Art Show," American Heritage, vol. 38, no. 8, December 1987, pp. 74-75, illustrated.

O.C. Assunção, et al., The Art of Juan Manuel Blanes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994, pp. 196, 199, no. 127, illustrated.

K.J. Myers, “'Type of a Back Civilization': Worthington Whittredge’s Santa Fe,” The Yale Journal of Criticism, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 124-25, fig. 4, illustrated.



Exhibited

(Probably) New York, National Academy of Design, Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Artist's Fund Society, December 1866, no. 14 (as Scene on the Western Plains).

Forbes Magazine Galleries, American Heritage Winter Art Show, December 1987.

New York, Forbes Magazine Galleries, American Heritage Winter Art Show, January 27-February 27, 1993, pp. 13-14, illustrated.

New York, Americas Society Art Gallery; Miami, Florida, Center for the Fine Arts; Tucson, Arizona, Tucson Museum of Art, Life in a Boundless Land: The Goucho Scenes of Juan Manuel Blanes, September 27, 1994-June 18, 1995.

Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Museum of Art, Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie, July 1, 1996-July 27, 1997, pp. 68-70, fig. 35, illustrated.
Artist:Worthington Whittredge (1820 - 1910)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Auction house category:Paintings
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