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LOVELL BIRGE HARRISON (1854-1929)
Winter Moonrise
signed 'Birge Harrison' (lower left)—signed again 'Birge Harrison N.A.' and inscribed with title (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1910.
Provenance
Haig and Hermine Tashjian, New York.
Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 1988, lot 29.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
D.L. Shirley, "New Look at Tonalism: Beauty Despite Flaws," The New York Times, May 30, 1982, p. 16.
Exhibited
Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum; Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum; New Britain, Connecticut, New Britain Museum of American Art; New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Tonalism: An American Experience, March 13, 1982-September 30, 1982, p. 73, no. 37, cover illustration.
Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, American Realist and Impressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Haig Tashjian, March 10-April 22, 1984.
West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery of Art; New York, National Academy of Design; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, In Nature’s Ways: American Landscape Painting of the Late Nineteenth Century, February 21-November 1, 1987, pp. 54, 116, no. 26, illustrated.
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