Provenance:

Dr. H.C. Haven, 1881
Thomas J. Watson, New York, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1939, by gift of Thomas J. Watson
Private Collection, Georgia
Private Collection, Virginia

 

Exhibitions:

Massachsetts Charitable Mechanic Association, Boston, Massachusetts, Fourteenth Annual Exhibition, 1881

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Special Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists at Home and in Europe, November 7 – December 26, 1881, no. 137

National Academy of Design, New York, 56th Annual Exhibition, 1881, no. 261

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey and the Artist, October 16 – November 28, 1965

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nineteenth Century America, Paintings and Sculpture, 1970 (exhibited but not in catalogue)

Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York, Luminism in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painting, 1972, no. 4

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nineteenth-Century American Landscape, 1972, and toured to the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester

 

Literature:

New York; Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1972-1973, no. 10

Elizabeth McClausland, Martin Johnson Heade 1819-1904, Panorama/Harry Shaw Newman Gallery 1 (October 1945): 5 (reproduced)

A Newly Acquired Work by Martin J. Heade, Antiques 50 (September 1946): 186

Helen J. Comstock, Exhibition of Paintings by Martin J. Heade and David G. Blythe, Panorama/Harry Shaw Newman Gallery 2(April 1947): opp. P. 87,90

Robert McIntyre, Martin Johnson Heade 1819-1904 (New York; Pantheon Press, 1948), pp. 56, 58, 60

Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, A Concise Catalogue of the American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957), p. 20

Theodore Stebbins, Jr., Martin Johnson Heade (College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland, 1969), n.p. [entry for Sunset, no. 29]

Theodore Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975), p. 257, no. 228 (reproduced)

Natalie Spassky, et. al, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 2 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), pp. 124-126 (reproduced)

Berry-Hill Galleries, American Paintings V (New York: 1988), pp. 58-59 (reproduced)

Thomas Llorens Serra, From Canaletto to Kandinsky: Masterworks from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Madrid: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, 1996) p. 132

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Martin Johnson Heade (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1999): 163, footnote 22

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonnè (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 264, no. 256 (reproduced)