Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001670The Prairie on Fire
by Alvan Fisher
Inscriptions
Signed, dated, and inscribed on verso, prior to lining: Painted by Alvan Fisher 1827
Provenance
The artist; sold for $100 to Samuel G. Goodrich (1793–1860), Boston, 1828; to Private Collection, Cambridge, MA; by descent in family for three generations; to Private Collection, Kennebunkport, ME; consigned to Vose Galleries, Boston; to Private Collection, MA; sold to Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, New York, N.Y.
Exhibition history
The Boston Atheneum, Annual Exhibition, 1829, cat. 209.
Publications
Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2008–09),16 (ill. p. 29). Ellen E. Roberts, "Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago," Museum Studies 35, 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 14–15 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Alvan Fisher / American, 1792–1863
- Date
- 1827
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61 × 83.8 cm (24 × 33 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Fund; purchased with funds provided by Jamee J. and Marshall Field; Americana Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2008.559
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