Algerian Horsemen near an Oasis (possibly Biskra)
Framed: 31 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches (79.38 x 92.08 x 6.99 cm)
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Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, KS, October-November 1941.
Objects from the Collection of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Winfield High School, KS, 1946.
Adolf Schreyer: An International Exhibition Presented by the Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI, June 8-July 30, 1972, unnumbered, as The Oasis.
Possibly with Deforge-Carpentier, Paris, at the earliest by 1871-no later than 1879 [1];
Probably Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Jr. (1879-1931), New York, by January 26, 1931;
Purchased from Important Paintings by Schreyer, Heuner, Daubigny, Dessar, Murphy, Van Goyen, Gainsborough, Lobley, Van Huysam and Artists of Like Distinction from Several Collections together with an Atheneum Portrait of Washington, by Stuart, and a Portrait of Judge Robert Johnson, by Waldo from the Estate of the Late Chauncey M. Depew, Jr., O’Reilly’s Plaza Art Galleries, New York, December 4, 1931, lot 11, as The Oasis, probably by Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1931-March 25, 1932 [2];
Purchased from Newhouse Galleries, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932 [3].
NOTES:
[1] A canvas supplier mark on the verso reads, “DEFORGE-CARPENTIER / 6 / R. HALEVY”. Deforge-Carpentier supplied artists like Schreyer and Pierre-Auguste Renoir with paints and canvases, while also displaying their paintings in the shop window. John House, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: La Promenade (Los Angeles: Getty Publications 1997), 20. Deforge-Carpentier moved their shop to 6, rue Halevy, Paris in 1871, while their workshop remained at 79, rue Legendre. The firm closed in 1879.
[2] It is likely that the picture belonged to Chauncey M. Depew Jr., but the sale had multiple consignors.
[3] The painting was placed on view at the Kansas City Art Institute from March 14, 1932 until May 20, 1932, since the museum was not yet built. See “Objects owned by the W.R. Nelson Trust on exhibit at the K.C. Art Institute as of March 14, 1932,” March 14, 1932, NAMA Archives, William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Records 1926-33, RG 80/05, Series I, box 02, folder 17, Exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute, 1932 and was removed before May 20, 1932. See also, “Pictures remaining in the Art Institute after May 20, 1932,” May 20, 1932, NAMA Archives, William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Records 1926-33, RG 80/05, Series I, box 02, folder 17, Exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute, 1932.”
“Recently Found Washington Portrait by Stuart to Be Sold,” Art News 30, no. 9 (November 28, 1931): 18.
“Hooper and Clarke Furniture on Sale; Large Collections With Many Rare Pieces to Be Dispersed at Auction This Week; Stuart Portrait Offered; Clarke Library Is Also Included—Ten Rooms of Old King Hooper House Cover Three Centuries,” New York Times 81, no. 26,972 (November 29, 1931): 6N.
Catalogue of Important Paintings by Schreyer, Heuner, Daubigny, Dessar, Murphy, Van Goyen, Gainsborough, Lobley, Van Huysam and Artists of Like Distinction from Several Collections together with an Atheneum Portrait of Washington, by Stuart, and a Portrait of Judge Robert Johnson, by Waldo from the Estate of the Late Chauncey M. Depew, Jr. (New York: Plaza Art Galleries, December 4, 1931), 9, as The Oasis.
M[inna] K. P[owell], “A New Nelson Group: Paintings and Drawings Are Added to Gallery; The Public May View the Recent Purchases From 2 Until 6 O’Clock This Afternoon at Epperson Room,” Kansas City Star 52, no. 206 (April 10, 1932): 11A.
M[inna] K. P[owell], “Art: Mr. Parsons Will Be Heard Thursday Night on ‘The Italian Renaissance’ – What Is to Be Seen in the Group of Recently Acquired Paintings for the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art Was Told the Hospitality Committee Yesterday by Him,” Kansas City Times 95, no. 88 (April 12, 1932): 10, erroneously as Tunisian Arabs on horseback.
“Kansas City Adds Important Works to its Holdings: Works Recently Bought for the William Rockhill Nelson Trust All Secured from Leading New York Dealers,” Art News 30, no. 30 (April 23, 1932): 8.
“Kansas City Art Museum Adds Important Pictures to Collection,” Art Digest 6, no. 15 (May 1, 1932): 4, as The Oasis.
Art News 30, no. 36 (June 4, 1932): 15, (repro.), as The Oasis.
“The Acquisitions,” in “The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City Special Number,” Art Digest 8, no. 5 (December 1, 1933): 22, as The Oasis.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 52, as The Oasis.
A. J. Philpott, “Kansas City Now in Art Center Class: Nelson Gallery, Just Opened, Contains Remarkable Collection of Paintings, Both Foreign and American,” Boston Sunday Globe 125, no. 14 (January 14, 1934): 16.
“Art and Artists: ‘Masterpiece of Week’ On Display Next Sunday; Plan to Give a Single Work of Art a Spotlight and Special Setting Each Week at the Nelson Gallery to Be Inaugurated Sunday,” Kansas City Star 54, no. 173 (March 9, 1934): 15, as Arab Horsemen.
Hans Vollmer, ed., Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 30, Scheffel-Siemerding (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1936), 286.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 168, as The Oasis.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 261, (repro.), as The Oasis.
John J. Doohan, “Forty Years Ago,” Kansas City Times 104, no. 185 (April 10, 1972): unpaginated.
Adolf Schreyer: An International Exhibition Presented by the Paine Art Center and Arboretum, exh. cat. (Oshkosh, WI: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, 1972), 42, (repro.), as The Oasis.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 259, as The Oasis.
Glynnis Stevenson, “Christian Adolf Schreyer, Algerian Horsemen near an Oasis (possibly Biskra), ca. 1863,” catalogue entry in French Paintings and Pastels, 1600–1945: The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2022), https://doi.org/10.37764/78973.5.418.5407.
