View on the Androscoggin River

Charles W. Knapp, American, 1823 - 1900

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19th century

Oil on canvas

Overall: 24 × 42 1/2 in. (61 × 108 cm)

Frame: 31 1/2 × 49 3/4 in. (80 × 126.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert A. and Dorothy H. Goldberg

P.987.34.31

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower right: C. W. Knapp; Inscribed, in graphite, on reverse strecter: No. 6 View on the Androscoggin River Me Price 200 [inscription barely legible]

Exhibition History

A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven: Artists in the White Moutains 1830-1930, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-October 30, 1988.

Exile from Eden, Graham Gund Gallery of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, March 26-July 22, 2012.

The Flagstaff Hill Collection, Embassy of the United States of America, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, February, 1998-April, 2001.

Publication History

Exhibition Catalogue for The Flagstaff Hill Collection: 150 Years of New England Art, MacLean Publishing Ltd. for the Embassy of the United States, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Fall 1998, ill. p. 3.

Robert L. McGrath and Barbara J. MacAdam, "A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven", Artists in the White Mountains 1830-1930, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, p.58, no.19.

Provenance

Dorothy E. Huffman Goldberg (1917-1997) and Robert A. Goldberg (1918-1997), North Conway, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1987.

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