About the Artwork
Crow's Nest
1848
Thomas Worthington Whittredge
1820-1910
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 39 3/4 × 56 inches (101 × 142.2 cm) Framed: 51 7/8 × 68 5/16 × 3 3/8 inches (131.8 × 173.5 × 8.6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Biggers
41.12
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: T. Whitridge 1848
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Provenance
until 1941, Mr. and Mrs. William d. Biggers
1941-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 22, 3 (1942): p. 22.
Victoiana. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, 1960, no. 213.
Bulletin of the DIA 55, 4 (1977): pp. 199-208 (ill.).
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Thomas Worthington Whittredge, Crow's Nest, 1848, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Biggers, 41.12.
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