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    The Mill, Sunset, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848, painter.
    Title: 
    The Mill, Sunset, (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    Old Mill at Sunset, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1844.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    26 1/8 x 36 1/16 in. (66.4 x 91.6 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Lower center:) T. Cole / 1844 signed
    Description: 
    Sunset landscape with two children playing on the grass in the foreground, a mill on the river bank at right, a man rowing a boat at left, cattle on a grassy hill at the bend in the river, sailboats in the distance, and a mountain in the background.
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- Time -- Sunset
    Architecture exterior -- Industry -- Mill
    Landscape -- River
    Architecture -- Boat -- Sailboat
    Animal -- Cattle
    Figure group
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Howell, Thomas Morris, Canandaigua, New York 1844.
    Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, New York by 1866.
    Roberts, Marshall Owen, New York, New York by 1867.
    Roberts, Susan Endicott, New York, New York until 1897.
    Finlay, Mark, Brooklyn, New York
    Finlay, Mark, estate of, 1909.
    Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York 1911-1976.
    Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York 1976.
    Ganz, Julian, Jr. & Jo Ann, Los Angeles, California 1976.
    Alexander Gallery, New York, New York by 1990.
    Acquired 2004.
    Exhibitions: 
    National Academy of Design Twentieth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1845, no. 178.
    References: 
    "The collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945; volume 2," Kansas City, MO: The Museum, 2007, pg. 91-93
    "The collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945; volume 1," Kansas City, MO: The Museum, 2007, pg. 194-199.
    "An American Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr.," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981.
    Brooklyn Museum, 1976.
    Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 128.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    "The collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945; volume 2," Kansas City, MO: The Museum, 2007, pg. 91.
    "The collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945; volume 1," Kansas City, MO: The Museum, 2007, pg. 195.
    Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 128.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 35680094
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