Currently not on view
Lake George,
ca. 1850–90
Unidentified American artist
y1958-77
While this painting by an unidentified artist retains the title Lake George, the landscape elements it depicts do not correspond to the actual topography of the popular retreat in the Adirondack Mountains. The composition may be derived from a print source; the woodsman dressed in a buckskin shirt addressing two Native American figures in the foreground might allude to an undetermined literary reference.
Information
Title
Lake George
Dates
ca. 1850–90
Maker
Unidentified American artist
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
86.5 × 86 cm (34 1/16 × 33 7/8 in.)
frame: 101.3 × 101.3 × 6 cm (39 7/8 × 39 7/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Duff Balken, Class of 1897
Object Number
y1958-77
Culture
Type
Subject
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American provincial paintings, 1790-1877: from the collection of Edward Duff Balken: galleries E and F, January 9 through February 23, 1947, (Pittsburgh, PA: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 1947).
, cat. no. 21 -
American folk art: a collection of paintings presented in 1958 by Edward Duff Balken of the Class of 1897 to the Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1958).
, no. 21 - "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 18, no. 1 (1959): p. 40-42., p. 41
- "Another generation's folk art: Edward Duff Balken and his collection of American provincial paintings and drawings: appendix I: an inventory of works from the home of Edward Duff Balken", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 29-30., p. 29
- Colleen Cowles Heslip and Charlotte Emans Moore, "Catalogue of the collection," in "A window into collecting American folk art: the Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 31-162., p. 151–153; cat. no. 60
