The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  1838

  Dr. George Ackerly [d. 1842], New York, NY, to his daughter, Emma Ackerly1

  By `839 - `847

  Emma Ackerly

  1847-

  Jonathan G. and Emma Ackerly Chapman, sold to Nicholas Matthews1

  Until 1914

  Nicholas M. Matthews [1858-1930], Baltimore, MD

  1914

  (American Art Association, Matthews collection sale, Feb. 17, 1914, no. 61, possibly sold to T. Austin)

  1914-1916

  Possibly T. Austin

  1916

  (Anderson Galleries, New York, NY, Matthews collection sale, Jan. 17, 1916, no. 55, sold to Holland Galleries)

  1916-1917

  (Holland Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

  1917-

  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 1Ackerly was Cole's brother-in-law.

  2 1 Although the painting is listed as for sale in the 1839 Apollo Association exhibition catalogue, it may not have sold, because in the 1848 Thomas Cole exhibition at the Gallery of the American Art Union, the owner is given as “Mrs. J. J. [sic] Chapman,” the married name of Emma Ackerly.

  3 1Chapman and Emma Ackerly married on April 20, 1847.11

  4 According to American Art Annual (1914, vol. 11), the painting was purchased by T. Austin at the 1914 American Art Association sale of Matthews' collection. The painting then appears again in 1916 in the second Matthews collection sale, this time at Anderson Galleries, with no mention of any ownership by Austin.  It is possible that it failed to sell in 1914, and was simply put up for sale again in 1916. That both the 1914 and 1916 sales situate the painting in the collection of Matthews calls into question the supposed purchase by Austin, as does the fact that the 1916 sale notes that the painting was purchased by Matthews "from Mrs. J.G. Chapman, granddaughter of Mr. Cole," who appears prior to Matthews in the provenance.

  5 1In the sale catalogue the painting is titled "Catskill Mountains.

  6 1Several copies of the catalogue of the 1916 Matthews collection sale have handwritten notations indicating that Holland Galleries was the buyer.  Additionally, shortly prior to CMA's acquisition of the painting, Holland Galleries lent it to the museum's inaugural exhibition in 1916.
• Citations
  American Art Association. Illustrated Catalogue of the Valuable Paintings by the Great and Little Masters of the Old and Modern Schools Formed by Mr. Nicholas M. Matthews of Baltimore. New York: The Association, 1914.

  American Federation of Arts. American Art Annual. New York: MacMillan Co, 1898.

  American Art Annual 11 (1914): 481.

  Anderson Galleries, Inc. Paintings by Old and Modern Masters. 1916.

  Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.

  Hoffman, Charles Fenno. New-York Mirror, June 1838. Mentioned: p. 367, 390

  American Art-Union. Exhibition of the Paintings of the Late Thomas Cole: At the Gallery of the American Art-Union. New York, NY: Snowden & Prall, 1848. Reproduced: no. 75

  Catalogue of Paintings, Engravings, &c. &c. at Picture Gallery of the Maryland Historical Society: Second Annual Exhibition, 1849. Baltimore, MD: Printed by J.D. Toy, 1849. Reproduced: no. 199

  "The Matthews Sale." American Art News. 12:20 (February 21, 1914). Mentioned: p. 8

  Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. Reproduced: p. 125

  "Matthews Pictures Sold." American Art News. 14:16 (January 22, 1916). Mentioned: p. 3, no. 55

  "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 4:4 (April-May 1917). Mentioned: p. 64-67 www.jstor.org

  Downes, William Howe. "American Painters of Mountains." The American Magazine of Art. 25:4 (October, 1932). Reproduced: p. 194

  Francis, Henry S. "Thomas Cole: Painter of the Catskill Mountains." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art. 24:7 (July, 1937). Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: p. 113-116 www.jstor.org

  Kellner, Sydney. "The Beginnings of Landscape Painting in America." Art in America and Elsewhere: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine. 25 (October, 1938). p. 158-168. Reproduced

  Carnegie Institute, and Lloyd Goodrich. A Century of American Landscape Painting, 1800 to 1900. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts 1939. Mentioned: p. 33, cat. no. 59

  Nathan, Walter L. "Thomas Cole and the Romantic Landscape." Romanticism in America: Papers Contributed to a Symposium Held at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Edited by George Boas, p. 24-63. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1940. Mentioned: p. 45

  Watson, Jane. "News and Comment." Magazine of Art. 33 (May, 1940). Reproduced: p. 310

  Lane, James W. "This Year the Carnegie National: Pittsburgh's Brilliant Survey of 160 Years of U.S. Painting." The Art News. 39:4 (26 October 1940). p. 7-18. Reproduced: p. 11

  Ault, George. "Thomas Cole Exhibition at Albany Institute." Ulster County News (Kingston, NY), November 27, 1941. Mentioned: p. 14

  Lesley, Parker. "Thomas Cole and the Romantic Sensibility." The Art Quarterly. 5:3 (Summer, 1942). p. 199-221. Mentioned: p. 199-221

  Frankenstein, Alfred. "Thomas Cole: The Story of a New Local Purchase." San Francisco Chronicle, January, 1947. Mentioned: p. 21

  Devree, Howard. "Baroque to Modern: A Wide Range of Styles in the New Shows." The New York Times, January 16, 1949. Reproduced: p. X9

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 533 archive.org

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 184 archive.org

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 184 archive.org

  Talbot, William S. “American Visions of Wilderness.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 4 (April 1969): 151–166. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 154, fig. 3 www.jstor.org

  Hamilton, George Heard. 19th and 20th Century Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1970. Mentioned: p. 70-77; Reproduced: p. 76, fig. 60

  Celeste, Adam, Rita Myers, and Adele Z. Silver. An Introduction to American Art in The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972. Mentioned: p. 7-10; Reproduced: p. 7

  Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp. 1-36. Mentioned: p. 24, no. 39 www.jstor.org

  Talbot, William S. "American Landscape Paintings in The Cleveland Museum of Art." Antiques. 104:5 (November, 1973). pp. 906-917. Reproduced: p. 906, fig. 1

  Barnett, Lincoln. The Ancient Adirondacks. New York: Time-Life Books, 1974. Reproduced

  Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Toledo Museum of Art. Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776-1976. Toledo, OH: Toledo Museum of Art, 1976. Mentioned: p. [16]; Reproduced

  Field, Marta. "Kindred Spirits: George Arms and American Studies Since 1944." New America. 3:2 (Summer/Fall, 1977). Reproduced: p. 44

  Johnson, Mark M. "American Landscapes." Arts and Activities. 82:4 (December, 1977). pp. 8-33. Reproduced: p. 28, fig. 1

  Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 228

  Millhouse, Barbara Babcock. American Wilderness: The Hudson River School of Painting. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. Reproduced: p. 46; Mentioned: pp. 41-47

  Zakon, Ronnie L. "The Romantic Vision." The Romantic Vision: 19th Century American Landscape Painting in the Walker Art Center Permanent Collection. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center 1978. pp. 6-21. Reproduced: p. 8, fig. 3

  Powell, Earl A., III. "Thomas Cole and the American Landscape Tradition: The Picturesque." Arts Magazine. 52 (March, 1978). pp. 110-117. Reproduced: p. 113

  Meservey, Anne Farmer. "The Role of Art in American Life: Critics' Views of Native Art and Literature, 1830-1865." The American Art Journal. 10:1 (May, 1978). pp. 72-89. Reproduced: p. 84, fig. 10

  Craven, Wayne. "Thomas Cole and Italy." The Magazine Antiques. 114:5 (November, 1978). pp. 1014-1027. Mentioned: p. 1014-1027

  Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Eastern Gate: An Invitation to the Arts of China and Japan. Cleveland: Collins, 1979. Mentioned: p. 19-26; Reproduced: p. 23

  Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. "'The Ravages of the Axe': The Meaning of the Tree Stump in Nineteenth-Century American Art." The Art Bulletin. 61:4 (December, 1979). pp. 611-626. Mentioned: p. 624; Reproduced: p. 624, fig. 22 3049941

  Wilmerding, John, and Lisa Fellows Andrus. American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1980. Mentioned: p. 162-170, 181-183; Reproduced: illus. p. 164, fig. 200

  Hobbs, Robert Carleton. Robert Smithson: Sculpture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981. Mentioned: p. 27-30; Reproduced: p. 28

  Baigell, Matthew. Thomas Cole. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981. Mentioned: p. 34-35, 58-59, 68-69, 76-77; Reproduced: p. 59, plate 20

  Silver, Adele Z. Guide to the Galleries: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2nd ed., revised. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Mentioned: p. 80-82; Reproduced: p. 82, fig. 75

  Czestochowski, Joseph S. The American Landscape Tradition: A Study and Gallery of Paintings. New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1982. Mentioned: p. 7-11, 13-17, 49, 68-69, 154-168; Reproduced: pp. 68-69, fig. no. 53

  Morse, Samuel Finley Breese. Lectures on the Affinity of Painting with the Other Fine Arts, edited by Nicolai Cikovsky. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1983. Mentioned: p. 19-33; Reproduced: fig. 13

  Talbot, William S. "Visions of Landscape: East and West." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 70:3 (March, 1983). pp. 112-135. Mentioned: p. 115-117; Reproduced: p. 115, fig. 4 www.jstor.org

  Creese, Walter L. The Crowning of the American Landscape: Eight Great Spaces and Their Buildings. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. Mentioned: p. 71-76; Reproduced: p. 76, fig. 20

  Kelly, Franklin. Frederic Edwin Church and the North American Landscape, 1845-60. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1985. Mentioned: p. 9

  Avery, Kevin J., Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, John K. Howat, Doreen Bolger Burke, and Catherine Hoover Voorsanger. American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. New York, NY : Metropolitan Museum of Art : H.N. Abrams, 1987. Mentioned: p. 134-136

  Rodrigues Roque, Oswaldo. "Realism and Idealism in Hudson River School Painting." Antiques 132:5 (November, 1987). pp. 1096-1109. Mentioned: p. 1100

  Parry, Ellwood C, III. The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition and Imagination. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1988. Mentioned: p. 188-225, 389-391; Reproduced: p. 202, fig. 165

  Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez. "The Exaltation of American Landscape Painting." Nature Rightly Observed: Hudson River School Landscape Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Shizuoka-shi: Metoroporitan Bijutsukan Meisaku Nihon Jikkō Iinkaii, 1988. Mentioned: p. 18, 36-55, 182, 209-210; Reproduced: p. 18, fig. 11

  Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. "Thomas Cole (1801-1848) Schroon Lake." American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1989. Mentioned: p. 16-17

  Vance, William L. America's Rome. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989. Mentioned: p. 90-105; Reproduced: p. 104, fig. 35

  Minks, Louise. The Hudson River School. New York: Crescent Books, 1989. Mentioned: p. 6-18, 20; Reproduced: p. 25

  Powell, Earl A. Thomas Cole. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1990. Mentioned: p. 20-47, 72-83, 139; Reproduced: p. 72

  Wilkins, David G., and Bernard Schultz. Art Past/Art Present. New York: Abrams, 1990. Mentioned: p. 388-389; Reproduced: p. 388, fig. 421

  Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 126

  Parry, Ellwood C., III. "Les Montagnes dans L'Imaginaire de Thomas Cole." La montagne et ses images du peintre d'Askrésilas à Thomas Cole. Paris: Éditions du CTHS, 1991. Mentioned: p. 383-415; Reproduced: p. 411, fig. 7

  Clément, Jean-Paul. Chateaubriand et le sentiment de la nature. Châtenay-Malabry: La Vallée aux loups, Maison de Chateaubriand, 1991. Mentioned: p. 13-21; Reproduced: p. 16

  Robertson, Bruce. "Frederic A. Whiting: Founding the Museum with Art and Craft." Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Mentioned: p. 32-59; Reproduced: p. 47

  Maciejunes, Nannette V., and Norma J. Roberts. A Nation's Legacy: 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections. Columbus, OH: Columbus Museum of Art, 1992. Reproduced: p. 30, 174; Mentioned: p. 22

  Truettner, William H., Alan Wallach, and Christine Stansell. Thomas Cole: Landscape into History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. Reproduced: p. 69, fig. 84; Mentioned: p. 171

  Marchetti, Francesca Castria, ed. American Painting. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002. Mentioned: p. 44

  Grabenhorst, T.N. "A River Runs Through It: Master Artists of the Hudson." The Compass: The Magazine of the Sea. 2 (2004). Mentioned: p. 30-35; Reproduced: p. 34

  Grabenhorst, T.N. "A River Runs Through It: Master Artists of the Hudson," The Compass: A Magazine of the Sea, no. 2 (2004):30-35. Reproduced: p. 34

  Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. Reproduced: p. 62 - 65

  Cole, Mark. "New Spaces in the Cleveland Museum of Art." American Art 24 no. 2 (Summer 2010) Reproduced: p. 16

  Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 46

  Shepard, Paul, Jr. "Paintings of the New England Landscape: A Scientist Looks at Their Geomorphology." College Art Journal. 17:1 (Fall, 1957). pp. 30-43. Reproduced: p. 36, fig. 5

  Eliot, Alexander. Three Hundred Years of American Painting. New York: Time Inc, 1957. Mentioned: pp. 70-74; Reproduced: p. 70

  Goodrich, Lloyd. "What is American in American Art?" Art in America. 46 (Fall, 1958). pp. 19-33. Reproduced: p. 23

  "Special Exhibitions." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art. 45:1 (January 1962). pp. 3-12. Reproduced www.jstor.org

  McCoubrey, John W. American Tradition in Painting. New York: G. Braziller, 1963. Reproduced: plate 22; Mentioned: pp. 22-31, 113-126

  American Literature. eds. Andrew J. Porter and Henry L. Terrie, Jr. New York: Ginn and Company, 1964. Reproduced: p. 204

  The Beauty of America in Great American Art: With Selections from the Writings of Renowned American Authors. Waukesha, WI: Country Beautiful Foundation; New York: In association with W. Morrow, 1965. Reproduced: pp. 38-39; Mentioned: pp. 37-39

  Huntington, David Carew. The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church: Vision of an American Era. New York: G. Braziller, 1966. Mentioned: p. 24-34, 200; Reproduced: fig. 4

  Merritt, Howard S. "'A Wild Scene' Genesis of a Painting." The Baltimore Museum of Art Annual II: Studies on Thomas Cole, An American Romanticist. Baltimore, MD: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967. Mentioned: p. 7-40; Reproduced: p. 23, fig. 7

  "I Don't Know Art, But I Know What I Like." The Ohio Bell Voice, January, 1967. Mentioned: p. 12-15; Reproduced: p. 13

  Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art. Cleveland, OH: World Pub. Co, 1968. Mentioned: p. 117-120; Reproduced: p. 118

  Talbot, William S. "American Visions of Wilderness." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 56:4 (April, 1969). p. 151-166. Mentioned: p. 154-156; Reproduced: p. 154, fig. 3 www.jstor.org

  Talbot, William S. "American Visions of Wilderness." The Living Wilderness. 33:108 (Winter, 1969). pp. 14-25. Reproduced: p. 17, fig. 3

  Prown, Jules David. American Painting: From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show, vol. 1. Geneva: Skira, distributed by World Publishing Company, 1969. Mentioned: p. 64-75; Reproduced: p. 67
• Exhibition History
  Landscape Into History. National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (co-organizer) (March 18-August 7, 1994); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (September 11-December 4, 1994); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (January 8-March 25, 1995).

  A Nation's Legacy: 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (January 19-March 15, 1992).

  American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 4, 1987-January 3, 1988).

  A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting, 1760 - 1910. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (co-organizer) (September 7-November 13, 1983); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (December 7, 1983-February 12, 1984).

  Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

  Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (March 7-April 11, 1976); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 2-June 13, 1976); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (July 4-August 15, 1976); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 8-October 10, 1976).

  Thomas Cole. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY (organizer) (co-organizer) (February 14-March 23, 1969); Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (April 5-May 4, 1969); Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY (May 9-June 20, 1969); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (June 30-September 1, 1969).

  Arts of the Young Republic: The Age of William Dunlap. Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Chapel Hill, NC (organizer) (co-organizer) (November 2-December 1, 1968).

  Exhibition of the Month: The Romantic Spirit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 29-May 5, 1952).

  Thomas Cole 1801-1848 One Hundred Years Later: A Loan Exhibition. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (organizer) (co-organizer) (November 12, 1948-January 2, 1949); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (January 8-30, 1949).

  The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (co-organizer) (February 15-March 25, 1945); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (April 17-May 18, 1945).

  The Works of Thomas Cole, 1801-1848. Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY (organizer) (co-organizer) (November 1-December 15, 1941).

  Survey of American Painting. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (co-organizer) (October 24-December 15, 1940).

  A Souvenir of Romanticism in America; or An Elegant Exposition of Taste and Fashion from 1812-to 1865. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (co-organizer) (May 10-June 10, 1940).

  A Century of American Landscape Painting 1800-1900. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (organizer) (co-organizer) (January 19-February 25, 1938).

  The Inaugural Exhibition. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 6-September 20, 1916). Lent by the Holland Galleries.

  Maryland Historical Society, Second Annual Exhibition. The Picture Gallery, Baltimore, MD (1849). Lent by J.S. Chapman.

  Exhibition of the Paintings of the Late Thomas Cole, At the Gallery of the American Art-Union. Gallery of the American Art-Union. New York, NY (March 27 1848-?).

  January Exhibition of the Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States. Apollo Gallery, New York, NY (1839).

  Dunlap Benefit Exhibition. Stuyvesant Institute, New York, NY (November 19-December 1838).

  Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design. National Academy of Design, New York, NY (April 23, 1838-?).
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