Tropical Landscape
Artist
William Edward Norton
(American, 1843-1916)
CultureAmerican
Date1871
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions16 x 30 in. (40.6 x 76.2 cm)
Overall, Frame: 22 3/8 × 36 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (56.8 × 92.7 × 6.4 cm)
Overall, Frame: 22 3/8 × 36 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (56.8 × 92.7 × 6.4 cm)
InscribedSigned: "Norton 1871" lower left.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2142
Not on view
Label TextWilliam Edward Norton
American (1843-1916)
Tropical Landscape, 1871
Oil on canvas, 16 x 30 in.
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
71.2142ProvenanceFrom M. R. Schweitzer to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr; gift to Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 1971.Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976.
“La peinture américaine: 1830—1900,” Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 27 – October 26, 2014.Published ReferencesDennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_ (Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum, 1976) 135.
William Hauptman, _Peindre L'Amerique: Les artistes du Nouveau Monde, 1830-1900_ (Lausanne, Switzerland: Fondation de l'Hermitage and La Bibliotèque des Arts, 2014) 123, cat. 60.
Mrs. William N. Grubb
William Anderson Coffin
