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Fisherman’s Hut, Siberia

Photo: Scott Leen

Fisherman’s Hut, Siberia

ca. 1899

Robert Swain Gifford

American, 1840 - 1905

Oil on canvas
20 x 34 in. (50.8 x 86.4 cm)
Bruce Leven Acquisition Fund
2019.7
Provenance: The artist; Estate of the artist; sold to James Beck, Solicitor General of the United States, 1905; {possibly by descent to his children, 1936}; sold to John D. Egan, Wilmington, Delaware, ca. 1960; sold to [McClees Gallery, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, by 1980]; sold to private collection, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, ca. 1980; sold to [McClees Gallery, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 2018]; purchased by Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2019
Photo: Scott Leen
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, American Art Galleries, Works in Oil and Watercolor by the Late R. Swain Gifford, 1906.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Art: The Stories We Carry, Oct. 20, 2022 - ongoing.
Published ReferencesBicentennial Inventory of American Paintings Executed Before 1914. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1976.

Frick Art Reference Library, New York, 1976. Subject of painting listed in inventory as “Eskimo Fisherman’s Hut, Plover Bay, Siberia (Harriman Alaska Expedition 1899).”

Works in Oil and Watercolor by the Late R. Swain Gifford. New York: American Art Galleries, 1906, cat. no. 77.

Pierce, Jerald. "How Seattle Art Museum is working to make its American art galleries more inclusive." The Seattle Times, October 25, 2022: reproduced, https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/how-seattle-art-museum-is-working-to-make-its-american-art-galleries-more-inclusive. [A version of this article appeared in print on October 30 with the headline: "Re-imagining American art: Seattle Art Museum offers a more expansive, inclusive look at U.S. art" (not reproduced).]

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