
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001061Old Virginia Home
Inscriptions
Signed left foreground: "WGBlythe" Signed on bottom of barrel at right: "H.A. Wise"
Provenance
Joseph Horatio Davis, Sewickley, PA, 1864; Mrs. Louis L. Browne (Martha G.), Sewickley, PA, 1913; estate of Louis Browne, 1973; Gailey Wilson and Son, Hickory, PA, 1973; Louise Wilson, Hickory, PA, 1977; David David Incorporated, Philadelphia, 1979; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.
Exhibition history
Pittsburgh, Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary in Aid of the Pittsburg Fair Fund of the United States Sanitary Commission, Together with Paintings Contributed by the Artists of Pittsburgh and Others, for Sale for Benefit of the Fair, June 1–18, 1864, cat. 240. Mercantile Library Association of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Loan Exhibition, 1879, cat. 39. Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, The Works of David Gilmour Blythe, Oct. 17, 1980–Jan. 11, 1981, cat. 192; Rochester, NY, Memorial Art Gallery, Feb. 7, 1981–Apr. 5, 1981, Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, May 7, 1981–July 5, 1981. Richmond, Virginia Historical Society, Inventing Old Virginia: The Decline and Rise of a Pastoral Ideal, Feb. 15–June 8, 2003. Shanghai Museum, Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 5.
Publications
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), 194, fig. 46. Eric Foner, “The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 1 (2001): 21, pl. 5 (ill.). Yang Zhigang, ed., Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 5.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- David Gilmour Blythe / American, 1815–1865
- Date
- 1864
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 52.7 × 73 cm (20 3/4 × 28 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- Virginia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund
- Accession no.
- 1979.55
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