Landscape

c. 1912

Morton Livingston Schamberg

Associated Names
Morton Livingston Schamberg

Painter, American, 1881 - 1918

This painting depicts a landscape with a variety of trees set against a blue-grey sky. Different shades of green are used for the leaves of the trees, which are outlined in dark, reddish-brown. A tree in the center has blue-grey branches and dense, bright green foliage. A small white house is seen to the left. The ground is white with patches of reddish-brown and green-and-blue stripes by the bottom right corner. The brushstrokes in the painting are thick and visible.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on composition board

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Joan B. Detweiler)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 19.05 × 24.13 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
    framed: 42.55 × 47.63 × 4.13 cm (16 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 1 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.93

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly (Downtown Gallery, New York); Joan B. Detweiler [Mrs. F.H. Detweiler];[1] gift 11 June 1962 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Corcorcan Gallery accession notes, in NGA curatorial files. Mrs. Detweiler acquired the work through Mrs. Edith Gregor Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, New York.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1963

  • Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 October - 29 December 1963, no catalogue, as by Charles Sheeler.

1978

  • The American Landscape Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, unpublished checklist, as by Charles Sheeler.

1986

  • The Advent of Modernism: Post-Impressionism in North American Art, 1900-1918, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 5 March - 11 May 1986,

1997

  • Charles Sheeler in Doylestown: American Modernism and the Pennsylvania Tradition, Allentown Art Museum, 2007, as Tree in Landscape by Charles Sheeler.

Bibliography

1966

  • Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 118, as by Charles Sheeler.

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 316, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q46633047

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