Shipwreck near a Rocky Coast

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Shipwreck near a Rocky Coast

Thomas BirchLinkedCulture matchlcp-f06a961ec148

Date
1833
Medium
Oil on canvas
Culture
United States
Department
Arts of the Americas
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
244013

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Based in Philadelphia, Thomas Birch was a leading marine painter who helped establish the genre in early 19th-century America. Shipwreck near a Rocky Coast is a romantic, imaginative composition that highlights human struggle against the forces of nature: the ship’s sails are torn, its masts lean to one side, and a tiny group of seafarers attempts to flee the disaster. Birch rendered the scene in dramatic detail, yet left the narrative unresolved.

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Credit line
Gift of the family of Richard H. Daniel
Provenance
Sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, April 19–20, 1972, lot 29, as "Shipwreck" [illustrated in auction sales cat., p. 22]. J. N. Bartfield Art Galleries, New York; sold to J. Verne Hawn, Shreveport, LA [probably in 1970s, private correspondence, copy in curatorial object file]. Consigned to Richard York Gallery, New York, by April 1981 [illustrated in "Inaugural Exhibition: Paintings by Americans," April 10–May 29, 1981, no. 5]. J. Verne Hawn, Shreveport, LA, to at least May 25, 1989 [illustrated in auction sales cat., "Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries," Christie’s, New York, May 25, 1989, lot 8, p. 16; unsold]. With Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, by 1992; sold to Richard H. Daniel, January 30, 1992; by descent to his daughter, Karen Daniel (1957–2019), Oak Park, IL, 2015; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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