Robert Spear Dunning
Robert Spear Dunning (1829–1905)
Apples, 1869
Oil on canvas, 19 3/4 x 25 1/4 in.
Signed, dated lower left: R. S. Dunning / 1869
Provenance: private collection, Swansea, Massachusetts; Christie's, New York, 6 December 1985, lot 13; private collection, New York; The Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan, by 1989; Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York; private collection, 2008.
Literature: (Probably) B. Chapin, Fall River Evening Herald, December 14, 1911, p. 15
Exhibited: (Probably) Fall River, Massachusetts, Fall River Public Library, December 14-28, 1911, no. 5; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, June 4, 1989-May 27, 1990, pp. 102-03, no. 38, illustrated; New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Atlanta, Georgia, The High Museum of Art, A Private View: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, April 3, 1993-March 6, 1994, pp. 109-11, illustrated; Sapporo, Japan, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Shiga, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art; Yokote, Japan, The Akita Museum of Modern Art; Japan, Tokuyama City Museum of Art History; Yokohama, Japan, Sogo Museum of Art, From the Hudson River School to Impressionism: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, July 5, 1997-February 1, 1998, pp. 70-71, no. 18, illustrated; Memphis, Tennessee, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Celebrate America: 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, February 7-April 18, 1999, pp. 44-45, no. 13.