David Gilmour Blythe, Room for Improvement

Project Description

David Gilmour Blythe (1815-1865)
Room for Improvement, ca. 1860
Oil on canvas, 26 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches
Signed lower left: Blythe

Provenance

D. C. Holmes, Pittsburgh, 1879
the English art market, ca. 1970
a private collection, England

Exhibited

Mercantile Library Association of Pittsburgh, “The Pittsburgh Library Loan Exhibition,” 1879, no. 33.

Literature

Mercantile Library Association of Pittsburgh. Catalogue of the Pittsburgh Library Loan Exhibition. Pittsburgh: Mercantile Library Association, 1879, no. 33.

Dorothy Miller. The Life and Work of David G. Blythe. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1950, pp. 104, 132.

Bruce W. Chambers. “Catalogue of Known Works,” in The World of David Gilmour Blythe (1815-1865). Washington, D.C.: Published for the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980, no. 248, p. 186.