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The Little Gleaner

Artist William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879)
Date1854
DimensionsFrame: 65 1/4 × 49 × 2 3/8 in. (165.7 × 124.5 × 6 cm)
Canvas: 54 7/8 × 38 1/2 in. (139.4 × 97.8 cm)
Mediumoil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineGift of Arthur J. Secor
Object number
1923.18
Not on View
Published ReferencesShannon, Martha., Boston Days of William Morris Hunt, Boston, 1923, repr. opp. p. 88.

Bermingham, Peter., American Art in the Barbizon Mood (exh. cat.), Washington, National Collection of Fine Arts, 1975, p. 83, fig. 65.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 63, pl. 46.

The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 47, Feb. 1925, repr. cover.

Baigell, Matthew, A History of American Painting, New York, 1971, p. 140, repr. illus. 7-13, p. 141.

Hoppin, Martha J., "The Sources and Development of William Morris Hunt's Painting," William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition, Boston, 1979, pp. 12, 59.

Webster, Sally, William Morris Hunt, Cambridge, England, 1991, pp. 33, 85, fig. 31.

Exhibition HistoryBuffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Centennial Exhibition of Paintings by William Morris Hunt, 1924, no. 45.

Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens; Evanston, Terra Museum; Worcester Art Museum, An International Episode, 1982-1983, no. 15, pp. 55, 56, 95, repr. p. 56 (det.) and ill.

Mansfield, Mansfield Art Center, The American Figure: Verderlyn to Bellows, 1984, no. 5.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, The Unseen Art of TMA: What's in the Vaults and Why?, September 12, 2004-January 2, 2005 (no checklist or catalogue).

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