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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Old Virginia Home
    David Gilmour Blythe. Old Virginia Home, 1864. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001061

    Old Virginia Home

    by David Gilmour Blythe

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.

    Open-access museum data

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    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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