About the Artwork
Fifth Avenue at Twilight
ca. 1910
Birge Harrison
1854-1929
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 × 23 inches (76.2 × 58.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
City of Detroit Purchase
10.21
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Markings
Signed, lower right corner: Birge Harrison
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Provenance
Birge Harrison
1910-present, purchased by the Detroit Museum of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Burroughs, Clyde. “A Painting by Birge Harrison Purchased.” Detroit Museum of Art Bulletin, 5, 1 (January 1911): pp. 1-2 (ill.).
Corn, Wanda M. “The New New York.” Art in America, 61 (July-August 1973): pp. 61-62 (ill.).
_____________. The Great American Thing. 1999, p. 165 (fig. 144).
Schaefer, Barbara and Anita Hachmann, ed. Es War Einmal in Amerkika: 300 Jahre US-Amerikanische Kunst. Exh. cat., Wallraf das Museum. Cologne, 2018, p.165 (ill. no. 3).
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Birge Harrison, Fifth Avenue at Twilight, ca. 1910, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 10.21.
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