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