Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art CollectionCC0 (public domain) · 10,490 × 8,127 px · Art Institute of Chicago · IIIF
1830 · Art Institute of Chicago
Distant View of Niagara Falls
painting by Thomas Cole
In the picture
- Date
- 1830WikidataArt Institute of Chicago: 1830
- Medium
- Oil on wood panelArt Institute of ChicagoWikidata: Oil paint on panel
- Dimensions
- 47.9 × 60.6 cmArt Institute of ChicagoWikidata: 47.9 × 60.6 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoWikidata
- 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
- 1946 –Art Institute of Chicagohigh confidenceWikidata · collection
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.
Identifiers & sources+
- Art Institute of Chicago90048
- Wikimedia CommonsDistant View of Niagara Falls 1830 Thomas Cole.jpg
- inventory number1946.396
- WikidataQ19900709
- Fame rank#18459 (1 Wikipedia articles)
