About the Artwork
Night Scene on the Detroit River: Revenue Cutter U.S.S. Fessenden
1880
Seth Arca Whipple
1856-1901
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas board
Overall: 12 × 18 inches (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of John Miller
42.19
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower right corner: S A Whipple | Detroit 3,1880
Inscribed, lower right corner: S A Whipple | Detroit 3,1880
Provenance
1942-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Gibson, Arthur Hopkin, ed. Artists of Early Michigan. Detroit, 1975, p. 24 (ill.).
Great Lakes Marine Painting of the Nineteenth Century, 1800-1900. Exh. cat., 1983, p. 64 (pl. 8).
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Seth Arca Whipple, Night Scene on the Detroit River: Revenue Cutter U.S.S. Fessenden, 1880, oil on canvas board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of John Miller, 42.19.
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