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Old Tower at Avignon
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: "Sam'l. Colman"
Provenance
Mr. Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932) and Mrs. Carrie Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, by 1932; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibition history
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, Paintings in Oil and Water–color by Samuel Colman, N.A., Mar. 29, 1893, cat. 39. Springfield, Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth–Century American Paintings: A Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 5–Apr. 24, 1966; Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19–June 5, 1966; Muscatine, Iowa, Laura Musser Art Gallery and Museum, July 24–Oct. 2, 1966; Peoria, Illinois, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Nov. 30, 1966–Jan. 8, 1967.
Publications
Robert B. Harshe, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 163, cat. 2166, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/s2hxd115k60.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Samuel Colman (American, 1832–1920)
- Date
- c. 1875
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20.3 × 23.7 cm (8 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.1187
More by Samuel Colman in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000773
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