Goose Eye Mountain and Mahoosuc Range from Sunday River Valley (Newry, Maine)
Francis Seth Frost, American, 1825 - 1902
about 1860s
Oil on canvas
Overall: 12 × 18 in. (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
Frame: 19 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (48.9 × 64.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Robert A. and Dorothy H. Goldberg
P.987.34.17
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Classification
Painting
Not on view
Inscription
Signed and dated, lower right: FS Frost 18(72?)
Exhibition History
Salute to the Thorne, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery's 25th Anniversary; Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, January 20-February 25, 1990.
Passing Through: The Allure of the White Mountains: the Goldberg Show, Museum of the White Mountains, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire, October 17, 2013- March 2, 2014.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19, 2003-April 13, 2004.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-July 15, 2001.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 26, 1996-June 22, 1997.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 26, 1991-June 1, 1993.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 7, 2010.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
A Sweet Foretaste of Heavean: Artists in the White Mountains, 1830-1930, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-October 30, 1988.
Publication History
Robert L. McGrath and Barbara J. MacAdam, 'A Sweet Foretaste of Haven'; Artists in the White Mountains 1830-1930, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, p. 55, no. 15.
Jourdan Houston, Francis Seth Frost (1825-1902): Beyond Bierstadt's Shadow, American Art Review, Volume VI, Number 4, August-September 1994, Kansas City, Missouri: American Arts Media, Inc., 1994, pp. 146-157, ill. p. 155
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 49, no. 28.
Provenance
Dorothy E. Huffman Goldberg (1917-1997) and Robert A. Goldberg (1918-1997), North Conway, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1987.
Old Number
138.18.986 GG122
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