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- oil on canvas 26 5/8 x 30 3/4 in. (67.6 x 78.2 cm.)PROVENANCEMrs. William Henry Bliss, Washington, D.C.Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, D.C.Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University, Washington, D.C.New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet (Sale: December 12, 1975, lot 82)Mr. and Mrs. John W. Graves, Wichita, KansasNew York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet (Sale: April 21, 1978, lot 75)EXHIBITEDNew York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Inc., Ten American Painters, 1899 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1899, no. 192Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Directions in American Painting 1875-1925, June-Aug. 1982, pp. 66-67, illus. (this exhibition travelled to various locations, 1982-1987)Youngstown, Youngstown State University, The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Oct. 1991-May 1992, p. 29RELATED LITERATUREU. Hiesinger, Impressionism in America, The Ten American Painters, New York, 1991, pp. 242-3This is most probably the painting The Brook that Reid included in the Ten's second annual group exhibition at Durand-Ruel, New York, in 1899, and may have also been included in Reid's exhibition of old and recent works at his own studio in the same year. In a New York Daily Tribune review of his one-man exhibition at Durand-Ruel the preceding year, an anonymous critic (possibly Royal Cortissoz) commended Reid's ability to "render the last, most evanescent aspect of a subject, but to take nothing from its reality..." (Hiesinger, p. 242) Reid's training and continued career as a muralist, and his later focus on portrait painting, make non-figural landscapes like The Brook a relatively rare occurence in his oeuvre.