About the Artwork
Sleighing Scene
1873
Martin Edgar Ferrill
1836-1897
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 18 1/8 × 24 1/4 inches (46 × 61.6 cm) Framed: 22 3/4 × 28 5/8 × 2 3/16 inches (57.8 × 72.7 × 5.6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass
43.28
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: M. E. Ferrill | Nov. 1873 | Lansingburgh
Inscribed, lower right: M. E. Ferrill | Nov. 1873 | Lansingburgh
Provenance
Downtown Gallery (New York, New York, USA). 1932, Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass
1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 46, no. 527.
Holbrook, Stewart. “Ah Winter!” American Heritage 7 (December 1955): pp. 14-19.
Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York. Exh. cat., New York State Historical Association. Cooperstown, NY, 1958, no. 35.
A Look at American Landscapes. Exh. cat., Charles MacNider Museum. Mason City, IA, 1966, no. 9 (ill.).
Arts and Crafts in Detroit. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1976, p. 172, no. 214 (ill.).
Chotner, Deborah, ed. American Naïve Paintings. Washington, D.C., 1992, p. 109.
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Martin Edgar Ferrill, Sleighing Scene, 1873, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass, 43.28.
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