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In and Out of Place

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Artist(s): Alvan Fisher (Needham, MA, Aug 9, 1792 - Feb 13, 1863, Dedham, MA)
Title: Covered Wagons in the Rockies
Date: 1837
Dimensions: 30 in. x 25 in. (76.2 cm x 63.5 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Museum purchase, 1959.11
Location: On view in Gallery 201

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

Themes: Ecology
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Representing the Land
Periods and Styles: The Hudson River School
Exhibitions: In and Out of Place
Exhibitions: A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Global Interactions
Exhibitions: Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Visualizing Science
Themes: MLC Portfolio: American Identity

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Survey of the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/14/1961 - 11/27/1961
Alvan Fisher Centennial Exhibition, Vose Galleries of Boston, 11/4/1962 - 5/7/1963
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
Man and His Kine, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 4/23/1972 - 5/28/1972
Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/1992 - 12/20/1992
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/21/1994 - 4/3/1994
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Framing America's Landscapes: Painting from the Addison Gallery of American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/20/1998 - 7/31/1999
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/22/2000 - 3/26/2000
Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/28/2000 - 7/31/2000
The American Land: Selections from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2001 - 4/8/2001
Place and Perceptions, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/16/2002 - 7/31/2002
The Discerning Eye: Five Perspectives on the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/4/2007 - 12/30/2007
Eye on the Collection: Views and Viewpoints, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2008 - 3/23/2008
Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/7/2010 - 3/27/2011
Natural Selections, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/14/2013 - 3/16/2014
[Permanent Collection 201-5], Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/2014 - 7/31/2014
Heaven and Earth, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/7/2015 - 4/5/2015
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/12/2015 - 3/13/2016
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2016 - 3/19/2017
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/2017 - 7/30/2017
In and Out of Place , Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/16/2019 - 7/31/2019
A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2019 - 7/31/2020
Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/23/2022 - 7/31/2022

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