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The Annunciation
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: "Goe Hitchcock/ op xxxvi 1887"
Provenance
George Hitchcock, Egmond-aan-Zee, Holland, 1887; Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago, 1890; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1930.
Exhibition history
Paris, France, Palais de Champs–Élysées, Salon des artistes français, May 1–[?], 1888, cat. 1297. Paris, France, Exposition Universelle, May 6–Oct. 31, 1889, cat. 166. Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Sept. 29–Dec. 17, 1989, cat. 166; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Feb. 1–Apr. 15, 1990, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, New York Historical Society, Sept. 5–Nov. 15, 1990.
Publications
Annette Blaugrund, “American Artists at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris,” Magazine Antiques 136, 5 (Nov. 1989), 1158–69, pl. ix. Piri Halasz, “Exhibition Reviews: Paris 1889,” Art Journal 49, 3 (Fall 1990), 306–09. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Hitchcock (American, 1850–1913)
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 158.8 × 204.5 cm (62 1/2 × 80 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Accession no.
- 1930.1289
More by George Hitchcock in museum collections
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