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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Coast of Labrador
    William Bradford. The Coast of Labrador, 1866. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001432

    The Coast of Labrador

    by William Bradford

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed and dated lower right: "Wm Bradford/1866"

    Provenance

    Henry H. Brooks, Boston, by 1981; Alfred J. Walker, Boston, 1981; Vose Galleries, Boston, 1981; Alfred T. Morris, Providence, Rhode Island, 1981; Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, DC, 1983; Marshall Field, Chicago, 1983; the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

    Publications

    A Record of Sharing (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), 21 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1983–1984 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), 37, fig. 30. Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Little, Brown and Company, 1988), 86 (ill.). 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), 202–04, no. 93. Richard C. Kugler, William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas (University of Washington Press, 2003), 14–15, fig. 11.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    William Bradford (American, 1823–1892)
    Date
    1866
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    72 × 113.3 cm (28 3/8 × 44 5/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund
    Accession no.
    1983.529

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