On view
American Art
Wilmerding Pavilion
Philip & Nancy Anschutz Gallery
Wilmerding Pavilion
Philip & Nancy Anschutz Gallery
In the Orchard
Theodore Robinson, 1852–1896; born Irasburg, VT; died New York, NY
y1943-96
Information
Title
In the Orchard
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51 × 41.5 cm (20 1/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
frame: 67 × 56.8 × 4.4 cm (26 3/8 × 22 3/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
y1943-96
Signatures
Signed in blue, lower left: Th Robinson
Culture
Type
Subject
Hugo Reisinger (1856-1914), by 1911; [Reisinger estate auction, New York (NY), January 18, 1916, n. 9 [1]]; purchased by D. Charles at the above sale. [Kende Galleries, New York (NY), “Reisinger et al., Furniture and Decorations”, sale no. 20, January 16-17, 1941, lot no. 117 [2]]; purchased by Frank Jewett Mather Jr. (1868-1953) at the above sale; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1943. [1] See Theodore Robinson, Bev Harrington, and William Kloss, The Figural Images of Theodore Robinson: American Impressionist, Oshkosh (WI) 1987. [2] According to a receipt in the museum files.
- Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art, (New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors, 1913)., no. 588
- F. J. Mather, "American paintings at Princeton University," Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 2, no. 2 (1943): p. 2-15., pp. 11-12 (illus.)
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 248 (illus.)
- Bruce Weber, The apple of America: the apple in 19th century American art, (New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 1993)., p. 9; checklist p. 47; p. 30, fig 6
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Katherine M. Bourguinon, Impressionist Giverny: a colony of artists, 1885-1915, (Giverny: Musée d'Art Amécain Giverny; Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007).
, p. 125 (illus.) -
Katherine M Bourguignon and Shunsuke Kijima, Monet and the artists of Giverny: the beginning of American impressionism, (Fukuoka, Japan: Nishinippon Shimbun, 2010).
, cat. no. 111 (illus.) -
James T. Tice and James G. Harper, Giuseppe Vasi's Rome: Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grant Tour (Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Press, 2010).
, fig. 95, p. 173 (illus.) - Marilyn Satin Kushner and Kimberly Orcutt , eds., The Armory Show at 100: modernism and revolution, (New York: New-York Historical Society; London: in association with D. Giles, 2013).
