Thomas Cole
The Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch)
1839101.5 x 147.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left: T. Cole. / 1839
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 825
Provenance
Commissioned 1839 by Rufus L. Lord (1782-1869), New York
Jonathan Sturges (1802-1874), New York, and Fairfield, Connecticut
his son, Henry C. Sturges (died 1924), Fairfield, Connecticut
his wife, Mrs. Henry C. Sturges, Fairfield, Connecticut
LeRoy Ireland, Philadelphia, probably early 1930s, but certainly by 1944
purchased June 1944 by Vose Galleries, Boston
sold 5 April 1945 to Sanitary Scale Company, Belvidere, Illinois
acquired 1966 by Kennedy Galleries, New York
purchased 25 May 1967 by NGA
Other works by Thomas Cole
Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans", Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund
1827
1827
View in the White Mountains
1827
1827
Distant View of Niagara Falls
1830
1830
Peace at sunset
c. 1827
c. 1827
Roman Campagna
1843
1843