Meetinghouse Hill, Roxbury, Massachusetts

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), 115–117, no. 43. Angela Miller, “Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), 40–59, fig. 2. Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, "For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) cat. 10.

Quick Overview

Artist: John Ritto Penniman (American, c. 1782–1841)
Date: 1799
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 73.6 × 94 cm (29 × 37 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: Folk Art
Place: Roxbury
Department: Arts of the Americas
Credit line: Centennial Year Acquisition and Centennial Year Major Acquisition funds
Accession no.: 1979.1461

Provenance

The Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.