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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Valley of Arconville by Theodore Robinson
    Theodore Robinson. The Valley of Arconville, c. 1887. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000963

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    The Valley of Arconville

    by Theodore Robinson

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, bottom-right, on grass, in brown paint: "TH. ROBINSON".

    Exhibition history

    New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, Society of American Artists, Eleventh Exhibition, May 13–June 15, 1889, no. 119. San Francisco, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Feb. 20–Dec, 1915, no. 2668 as Le Val Arconville: Eure. Washington, DC, Museum of Modern Art Gallery, A Century of American Painting, Mar. 1939, as Val Arconville. Los Angeles Museum, The Development of Impressionism, Jan. 12–Feb. 28, 1940, no. 76 as Valley, Arconville. Brooklyn Museum, Special Exhibition of Theodore Robinson, Nov. 12–Jan. 5, 1947, no. 238, ill. ix. Indiana, South Bend Art Association, American Painting in the Manner of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948, no. 44 as The Vale of Arconville. Milwaukee–Downer College, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists 1851–1951, Feb. 13–Mar. 23, 1951, no. 7 as Val D’Arcouville. *only checklist on back of symposium brochure, The Arts in Society, Milwaukee–Downer College Feb. 13, 1951. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. New York, American Federation of Arts, Monet and the Giverny Group, Dayton Art Institute, Jan. 6–Feb. 12, 1961, no. 27 as the Vale of Arconville; Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Mar. 11–Apr. 5; Tucson, Ariz., University of Arizona Museum of Art, Apr. 19–May 10; Reno, University of Nevada, Oct. 21–Nov. 11; San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery, Nov. 30–Dec. 23; Atlanta Art Association, Jan. 7–28, 1962. Madison, University of Wisconsin, Memorial Union Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896, Oct. 29–Nov. 10, 1964, no. 11, ill. no. 14 as The Vale of Arconville. New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors by Theodore Robinson, Nov. 1–Dec. 15, 1966, cat. no. 41. Baltimore Museum of Art, Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896, May 1–June 10, 1973, no. 22, ill.; The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, July 12–Aug. 26; Worcester Art Museum, Sept. 19–Oct. 28; Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Art Museum, Nov. 19–Dec. 23; Utica, NY, Musnon–Williams–Proctor Institute, Jan. 20–Feb. 24, 1974. Albi, France, Musée Toulouse–Lautrec, Trésors Impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 53. Baltimore Museum of Art, In Monet's Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny, Oct. 17, 2004–Jan. 9, 2005, cat.; Phoenix Art Museum, Feb. 6–May 8, 2005; Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, June 4–Sept. 4, 2005. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young, Jewel City: Art from San Francisco's Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Oct. 17, 2015–Jan. 10, 2016, cat. 52.

    Publications

    D.F. Hoopes, The American Impressionists (Watson–Guptill Publications, 1972), p. 48, pl. 15. 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). Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 47.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Theodore Robinson (American, 1852–1896)
    Date
    c. 1887
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    45.8 × 55.7 cm (18 × 21 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Friends of American Art Collection
    Accession no.
    1941.11

    Provenance

    Arthur A. Carey, Waltham, MA, by 1889. M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1908; sold to Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1908; sold to M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1931; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1941.

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