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The Essex Canal
Provenance
John Gellatly, New York, by 1918. Charles Melville Dewey, by 1932; Anderson Galleries, American Art Association sale (Dewey estate); April 8, 1937; Ferargil Galleries, New York, 1937. Jesse Sobol, New York, 1951. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, sale, November 15, 1967; Herbert Geist, Chicago, 1967; given by him to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980.
Exhibition history
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of the Works of Albert P. Ryder, Mar. 11–Apr. 14, 1918, cat. 5, as The Canal. New York, Anderson Galleries, Nineteenth Century Paintings, 1937, cat. 19 (ill.). New York, Parke–Bernet Galleries, American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, 1967, cat. 70 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Albert Pinkham Ryder / American, 1847–1917
- Date
- c. 1896
- Medium
- Oil on canvas mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 41.3 × 52.1 cm (16 1/4 × 20 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Geist
- Accession no.
- 1980.279
More by Albert Pinkham Ryder 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-00001108
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