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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Boats at Rest by Arthur Wesley Dow
    Arthur Wesley Dow. Boats at Rest, c. 1895. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001562

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    Boats at Rest

    by Arthur Wesley Dow

    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.

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