Solitude

by Joshua Shaw

Publications

"Acquisitions," Annual Report, 2004–2005 (Art Insitute of Chicago, June 2005), 16.

Quick Overview

Artist: Joshua Shaw (American, born England, c. 1777–1860)
Date: 1818
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 54.5 × 78.7 cm (21 1/2 × 31 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on canvas
Place: United States
Department: Arts of the Americas
Credit line: Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; the George F. Harding Collection
Accession no.: 2004.489

Provenance

Estate of Ms. Betty Washington Whiting, Baltimore, MD, until 2003; with Christie's New York, March 30-31, 2004, lot 34; private collection; with Menconi & Schoelkopf FIne Art, New York, 2004; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004.

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