About the Artwork
Moorish Interior
between ca. 1875 and 1879
Frederic Arthur Bridgman
1847-1928
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 10 5/8 × 16 inches (27 × 40.6 cm) Framed: 22 1/8 × 27 11/16 × 3 3/8 inches (56.2 × 70.3 × 8.6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund
1993.20
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Markings
Signed, at left, below table top: F A Bridgman
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Provenance
Arlington Art Galleries (Brooklyn, New York, USA). Mack Pratt (Hamilton, Ohio, USA). Private collection (Hamilton, Ohio, USA). Jordan-Volpe Gallery (New York, New York, USA)
1993-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Thornton, Lynne. The Orientalists: Painter-Travellers, 1828-1908. Paris, 1983, p. 15.
Fort, Ilene Susan. "Frederick Arthur Bridgman and the American Fascination with the Exotic Near East." Ph.D. Dissertation, City University of New York. 1990, pp. 213, 217, 225-245.
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 2. New York, 1997, pp. 26-28 (ill.).
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Frederic Arthur Bridgman, Moorish Interior, between ca. 1875 and 1879, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund, 1993.20.
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