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View of Subiaco

Artist Samuel Palmer (English, 1805 - 1881)
Date1837-1839
MediumGraphite, charcoal, gouache, and watercolor on paper
DimensionsOverall: 8 3/4 × 16 5/8 inches (22.23 × 42.24 cm)
Framed: 13 1/4 × 20 3/4 × 3/4 inches (33.66 × 52.71 × 1.91 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/58
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

An Exhibition of Drawings, Etchings, and Woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and Other Disciples of William Blake, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, October 20-December 31, 1926, no. 90, as Sketch of the Town of Subiaco from the south-west.

The Work of Samuel Palmer, Durlacher Brothers, New York, February 1-February 26, 1949, no. 24, as Sketch of the Town of Subiaco, from the Southwest.

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 106, as View of Subiaco.

City Views, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 31-July 10, 1983, no. 27, as View of Subiaco.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 67, as View of Subiaco.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as View of Subiaco.

Provenance

A.H. Palmer, Vancouver;

His sale, Drawings, Picture and Etchings by Samuel Palmer: The Property of A.H. Palmer, Esq., Christie, Manson and Woods, London, February 20, 1928, lot 39, as Sketch of the Town of Subiaco from the south-west;

Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, MA, by April 5, 1949-November 20, 1953 [1];

Purchased from Philip Hofer, through Durlacher Brothers, New York, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, November 20, 1953-1980 [2];

His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] The picture is listed in The Work of Samuel Palmer, exh. cat. (New York: Durlacher Brothers, 1949) as having been lent by Philip Hofer.

[2] Getty Research Library, Los Angeles, Durlacher Brothers Records, Box 23.

Published References

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings, Etchings, and Woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and Other Disciples of William Blake, exh. cat. (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1926), 40, as Sketch of the Town of Subiaco from the south-west.

Catalogue of Drawings, Picture and Etchings by Samuel Palmer: The Property of A.H. Palmer, Esq., (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, February 20, 1928), 7, as Sketch of the Town of Subiaco from the south-west.

The Work of Samuel Palmer, exh. cat. (New York: Durlacher Brothers, 1949), unpaginated, as Sketch of the Town of Subiaco, from the Southwest.

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 48, as View of Subiaco.

Ross E. Taggart and Roger B. Ward, City Views, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 12, 29, (repro.), as View of Subiaco.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 180, 206-07, (repro.), as View of Subiaco.

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