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Artist(s): attributed to William Allen Wall (New Bedford, MA, May 29, 1801 - 1885, New Bedford, MA)
Title: View of Barnstable
Date: 1857
Dimensions: 36 3/4 in. x 48 1/4 in. (93.35 cm x 122.56 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas lined onto masonite
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Museum purchase, 1945.19

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Themes: MLC Portfolio: Representing the Land
Themes: Ecology
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Global Interactions
Exhibitions: Currents/Crosscurrents
Themes: MLC Portfolio: American Identity

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart, American Federation of Arts, 9/20/1951 - 10/5/1951
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Artistic Highlights of American History, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/10/1958 - 3/23/1958
Living with Design, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/22/1959 - 10/23/1959
Winterfest '66 [version of Roots and Promise of American Art], Winterfest, 2/18/1966 - 2/27/1966
Roots and Promise of American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/10/1967 - 3/13/1967
Paintings from the Addison Gallery Collection, Showcase Cinema, 3/28/1967 - 4/25/1967
The Painter and the New World: A Survey of Painting from 1564 to 1867, Marking t, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 6/8/1967 - 7/30/1967
Aspects of American Art History-Group Exhibition of Paintings Loaned from Coll, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/1/1968 - 11/15/1968
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
What is American in American Art, M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., 2/8/1971 - 3/6/1971
Man and His Kine, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 4/23/1972 - 5/28/1972
New England Scenes from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/26/1982 - 11/28/1982
Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/1992 - 12/20/1992
Inside and Out: Scenes of American Life from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/26/2000 - 12/31/2000
Place and Perceptions, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/16/2002 - 7/31/2002
Loan to Head of School's Office, Phillips Academy, Phillips Academy, 10/18/2007 - 10/18/2010
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2017 - 7/31/2018
Currents/Crosscurrents: American Art, 1850–1950, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 3/7/2021

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