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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 23, 2025 | Christie's | New York | American Sublime: Property from an Important Private Collection | 212 | $****** - ****** | Sunshine |
paintings
35.6 x 50.8 cm (14 x 20 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated "J.G. Brown N.A./1879." (lower right)
The artist.
Private collection.
The Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan.
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008.
(Possibly) National Academy of Design, New York, 1879 (as A Sunny Day ).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection , June 4, 1989-May 27, 1990, pp. 136-37, no. 49, illustrated.
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Atlanta, Georgia, The High Museum of Art, A Private View: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection , April 3, 1993-March 6, 1994, pp. 124-27, illustrated.
Sapporo, Japan, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Shiga, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art; Yokote, Japan, The Akita Museum of Modern Art; Japan, Tokuyama City Museum of Art History; Yokohama, Japan, Sogo Museum of Art, From the Hudson River School to Impressionism: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection , July 5, 1997-February 1, 1998, pp. 108-09, no. 34, illustrated.
Memphis, Tennessee, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Celebrate America: 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection , February 7-April 18, 1999, pp. 32-33, no. 7, illustrated.
(Possibly) "Budding Academicians," The New York Times , 20 April 1879, p. 10 (as Sunny Day ).
K. Sharp, Summer Leisure in the Gilded Age: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection , Chicago, Illinois, 2005, p. 9, pl. 5, illustrated.
M. Hoppin, The World of J.G. Brown, Chesterfield, Massachusetts, 2010, pp. 104, 107, 231n55, illustrated.
JOHN GEORGE BROWN (1831-1913)
Sunshine
signed and dated "J.G. Brown N.A./1879." (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1879.
