Lot 153: Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880)

View in the Canyon of the Coppermines, Santa Rita, New Mexico oil on canvas 30 x 44 in. (76.2 x 111.8 cm.) PROVENANCE Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts. Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts. Acquired by the present owner from the above. LITERATURE A.D. Hodgson, "Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880)", The Magazine Antiques, November, 1972, pp. 842, 844, illustrated J. Fairbanks and E. Sussman, "Frontier America: The Far West", The Magazine Antiques, February, 1975, pp. 280, 283, illustrated EXHIBITION Boston, Massachusetts, Tremont Street Gallery, 1872, no. 12 Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Western Art: Paintings and Sculpture of the West, February 17-March 19, 1967 (This exhibition also traveled to Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum) Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, Bartlett's West, February 29-April 21, 1968 New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Frontier: Images and Myths, June 16-September 16, 1973 Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Frontier America: The Far West, January 23-March 16, 1975, no. 63 (This exhibition also traveled to Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum, San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center, The Hague, Netherlands, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Zurich, Switzerland, Kunsthaus, Essen, Germany, Villa Hugel, Vienna, Austria, ™sterreichisches Museum fr angewandte Kunst, Brussels, Belgium, Palais de Beaux-Arts) NOTES Executed in 1855.