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At the River's Bend (On the River II)
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, in dark paint: L. C. Perry
Exhibition history
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sixty–Fifth Annual Exhibition, Dec. 23, 1895–Feb. 22, 1896, no. 254, as At the River’s Bend. Paris, Champs–de–Mars, Société Nationale des Beaux–Arts, no. 992, April 25–[?], 1896, as Au bord de l’eau. Boston, St. Botolph Club, An Exhibition of Paintings by Mrs. T. S. Perry, Nov. 10–24, 1897, no. 18, as On the River II. Boston, Guild of Boston Artists, An Exhibition of Paintings by Lilla Cabot Perry, Jan. 10–22, 1927, no. 13, as On the River. Boston, Boston Art Club, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Lilla Cabot Perry, Oct. 26–Nov. 18, 1933, no. 22, as On the River II. Newport, RI, Art Association of Newport, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Lilla Cabot Perry, Sept. 11–29, 1934, no. 13, as On the River, Giverny II. Washington, DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Lilla Cabot Perry: An American Impressionist, Sept. 28, 1990–Jan. 20, 1991, no. 21, as At the River’s Head [Edith Perry] (On the River, II). Boston, Vose Galleries, The Boston School Tradition: Truth, Beauty, and Timeless Craft, June 6–Aug. 1, 2015. Rockport, MA, Rockport Art Association and Museum, Strokes of Genius: Women in the Arts, Past and Present, Oct. 10–Nov. 14, 2015. Boston, Vose Galleries, Cross Currents: The Colonies, Clubs, and Schools That Established Impressionism in America, Oct. 29, 2016–Jan. 28, 2017. Giverny, France, Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, Les Enfants de l'impressionnisme, Mar. 31–July 2, 2023, cat. 150.
Publications
Rockport Art Association, Strokes of Genius: Women Artists of New England, Past & Present, exh. cat. (Rockport, MA: Rockport Art Association, 2015), 11 (ill). Cyrille Sciama and Marie Delbarre, Les enfants de l'impressionnisme, exh. cat. (Giverny, France: Musée des impressionnismes, 2023). 234, cat. 150 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lilla Cabot Perry (American, 1848–1933)
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65.5 × 81.5 cm (25 13/16 × 32 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- Giverny
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Partial gift of Abbot W. and Marcia L. Vose; through prior bequest of Arthur Rubloff; through prior gift of James D. Thornton, Mrs. Abram Poole, and Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; through prior bequest of Celia Schmidt; Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker Jr. Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2020.219
Provenance
The artist, to 1933 [according to annotated exh. cat., Boston Art Club, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Lilla Cabot Perry, Oct. 26–Nov. 18, 1933, copy in Museum of Fine Arts Library, Boston]. Mrs. George H. L. Smith, Palmer, MA, by 1983; sold to Vose Galleries, Boston, October 17, 1983; sold to Abbot W. and Marcia L. Vose, Boston, June 11, 1984; sold/given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001751
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