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    On the Bank
    Frederick Carl Frieseke. On the Bank, c. 1915. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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    On the Bank

    by Frederick Carl Frieseke

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, bottom-right, on grass, in blue paint: “F. C. Frieseke”.

    Provenance

    The artist, Paris; by exchange and partially sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1916; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1916.

    Exhibition history

    Milwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 14. Kalamazoo, MI, Civic Theatre, Paintings from the Friends of American Art Collection, Dec. 27, 1944–Feb. 27, 1945, no cat. (organized by the Kalamazoo Institute of Art). IN, South Bend Art Association, American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948, cat. 23. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Scott Hall, Apr. 2–9, 1954, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois: In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, June 15–Sept. 8, 1968, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, American Impressionist Painting, July 1–Aug. 26, 1973, cat. 25; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sept. 18–Nov. 2, 1973; Cincinnati Art Museum, Dec. 15, 1973–Jan. 31, 1974; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mar. 8–Apr. 29, 1974. Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, The Last Expatriate: Frederick Carl Frieseke, Apr.–May 1980; cat. 12; Hickory, NC, Hickory Museum of Art; Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art; Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum; Greensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Art Gallery; Wilmington, NC, St. John's Art Gallery. Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20–Mar. 29, 1994, cat. 52; Nagoya, Japan, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994. Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art, Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist, Mar. 20–June 3, 2001, cat. 43; Memphis, TN, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, June 23–Aug. 19, 2001; San Diego Museum of Art, Sept. 8–Nov. 11, 2001; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Dec. 8, 2001–Feb. 3, 2002.

    Publications

    Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1916), 166. Friends of American Art Year Book, 1916-1918, 6th ed. (1918), 9, 16 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 137, cat. 385. Milwaukee Art Institute, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 14 (ill.). James Murray Haddow, American Painting in the Manner of the Late Ninteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat. (South Bend Art Association, 1948), n.p., cat. 23. Moussa M. Domit, American Impressionist Painting, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, 1973), 83, cat. 25 (ill.). Ben L. Summerford, The Last Expatriate: Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939), exh. cat. (Fayetteville, n.p., cat. 12. Niigata Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], exh. cat. (Nagaoka, Japan: Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 1994), 158–159, cat. 52 (ill.). Nicholas Kilmer and Linda McWhorter, Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist, exh. cat. (Savannah, GA: Telfair Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 36, 167, cat. 43 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874–1939)
    Date
    c. 1915
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    102.8 × 146 cm (40 1/2 × 57 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Friends of American Art Collection
    Accession no.
    1916.439

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