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Boats at Rest
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: "Arthur W. Dow"
Exhibition history
Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Arthur Wesley Dow and the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Oct. 8, 1999–Jan. 7, 2000. Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 37. Shanghai Museum, Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 13.
Publications
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1990–1991 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1991): 16, fig. 10. 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), 289–91, cat. 146 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, ed., Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 64–5, 192, cat. 37, fig. 21 (ill.). Yang Zhigang, ed., Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 13.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857–1922)
- Date
- c. 1895
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 66 × 91.4 cm (26 × 36 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- Ipswich
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Accession no.
- 1990.394
Provenance
Private collection, New England, to 1990; Spanierman Gallery, New York, 1990; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.
More by Arthur Wesley Dow in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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