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1830 · Art Institute of Chicago

Distant View of Niagara Falls

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painting by Thomas Cole

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Date
1830Wikidata
Art Institute of Chicago: 1830
Medium
Oil on wood panelArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: Oil paint on panel
Dimensions
47.9 × 60.6 cmArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: 47.9 × 60.6 cm
Gallery
Gallery 161Art Institute of Chicago
Genre
landscape paintingWikidata
Materials
oil paint, panelWikidata
Inventory no.
1946.396Wikidata
Credit line
Friends of American Art CollectionArt Institute of Chicago

Provenance

Where it has been

  1. 1946 –
    Art Institute of Chicago
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Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago

WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, Nineteenth Century American Masters, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no cat. Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Thomas Cole 1801–1848: One Hundred Years Later, Nov. 12, 1948–Jan. 2, 1949, cat. 155, as Niagara Falls; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan. 8–30, 1949. Arts Club of Chicago, The American Landscape, Nov. 14–Dec. 29, 1973, cat. 4. Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697–1901, Sept. 21–Nov. 24, 1985; Buffalo, NY, Knox Art Gallery, July 13–Sept. 1, 1985; Corcoran Gallery of Art, New–York Historical Society, Jan. 22–Apr. 27, 1986. Art Institute of Chicago, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings, Jan. 30–May 13, 2018, cat. 19; London, The National Gallery, June 11–Oct. 7, 2018.
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