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Provenance

Collection of the Smith College Museum of Art, 1898-1947
Sold by Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brother, catalogue 269, no. 267, New York, 1947

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition, January 21-March 5, 1892, no. 249

Chicago, World’s Columbian Exhibition, May 1 – October 30, 1893, no. 788

New York, Brooklyn Art Association, March 1892, $1,200

New York, National Academy of Design, 1891, no. 120, $1,000

Boston, Boston Art Club, Annual Exhibition, December 5, 1896-January 9, 1897, no. 92

Literature

Charles H. Caffin, The Art of Dwight W. Tryon: An Appreciation, New York, The Forest Press, 1909

Henry C. White, The Life and Art of Dwight William Tryon, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930, pg. 90, illustrated on pg. 92

Carolyn Kinder Carr & George Gurney, Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World’s Fair, Hanover and London, The University Press of New England, 1993, pg. 330