Building The Cofferdam

Arts of the Americas

c. 1914

Walter Elmer Schofield
American, 1867–1944

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Walter Elmer Schofield
Title: Building The Cofferdam
Origin: United States
Date: c. 1914
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed: Schofield
Dimensions: 127 × 152.4 cm (50 × 60 in.)
Credit Line: Friends of American Art Collection
Reference Number: 1914.821

D.F. Hoopes, “The American Imrpessionists,” (New York, 1972), p. 138 (ill.).
James D. W. Church et al., “Schofield: International Impresssionist,” exh. cat. (Woodmere Art Museum, 2014) ill. p. 104.

New York, National Academy of Design, Annual Exhibition, 1914, cat. 291.
Art Institute, Twenty–Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Nov 3–Dec 6, 1914, cat. 278.
Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov 5, 1935–Mar 3, 1936.
Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism, Sep 16–Nov 27, 1984; Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dec 17, 1984–Feb 10, 1985; Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Mar 2–May 5, 1985; Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Jun 1–Sep 2, 1985, cat. 2.

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