The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 7, 2023

Pointe de Cabellou, Brittany

1881

William L. Picknell

(American, 1854–1897)

America, 19th century

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 60.3 x 92.2 cm (23 3/4 x 36 5/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1984.13

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed lower right: "W. L. Picknell. 1881-"

Provenance
(Levantine Gallery, Bordeaux); (Claude Marumo, Director, Galerie Marumo, Paris); Alfred T. Morris, Jr., Seekonk, Massachusetts; Benjamin Rifkin, Binghampton, New York (Mr. Robert Weimann, Jr. was the agent for the sale from Mr. Morris to Mr. Rifkin); Mr. Alexander Cokas, New Hope, Pennsylvania (uncertain if he was the agent for Mr. Rifkin, or if he owned the work himself); (Taggart, Jorgensen, & Putman, Washington, D.C., October, 1983)
Exhibition history

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fraternite: Artistic Relations Between France and America (21 July-18 October 1987); Gallery A; no catalogue.

Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1984.13