Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001737Shipwreck near a Rocky Coast
by Thomas Birch
Inscriptions
Signed at lower right: "T Birch 1833"
Provenance
Sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, April 19–20, 1972, lot 29, as "Shipwreck" [illustrated in auction sales cat., p. 22]. J. N. Bartfield Art Galleries, New York; sold to J. Verne Hawn, Shreveport, LA [probably in 1970s, private correspondence, copy in curatorial object file]. Consigned to Richard York Gallery, New York, by April 1981 [illustrated in "Inaugural Exhibition: Paintings by Americans," April 10–May 29, 1981, no. 5]. J. Verne Hawn, Shreveport, LA, to at least May 25, 1989 [illustrated in auction sales cat., "Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries," Christie’s, New York, May 25, 1989, lot 8, p. 16; unsold]. With Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, by 1992; sold to Richard H. Daniel, January 30, 1992; by descent to his daughter, Karen Daniel (1957–2019), Oak Park, IL, 2015; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Exhibition history
New York, Richard York Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition Paintings by Americans, Apr. 10–May 20, 1981, cat. 5 (ill.), as Shipwreck.
Publications
Ian Bennett, A History of American Painting (Hamlyn, 1973), ill. 77, pl. 78, as Shipwreck. Christie, Manson, and Woods International, New York, Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries, sale cat. (Christie, Manson, and Woods International, Inc., New York, 1989), lot 8 (ill.), as Shipwreck. Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, American Paintings, sale cat. (Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, 1990), cat. 4 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Birch / American, born England, 1779–1851
- Date
- 1833
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 51.4 × 76.8 cm (20 1/4 × 30 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of the family of Richard H. Daniel
- Accession no.
- 2018.363
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