id: 108999 accession number: 1927.171 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.171 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:08.409000 The Building of the Dam, 1908. Julian Alden Weir (American, 1852–1919). Oil on canvas; framed: 93.5 x 118.5 x 7.5 cm (36 13/16 x 46 5/8 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 76 x 101.6 cm (29 15/16 x 40 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.171 title: The Building of the Dam title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1908 creation date earliest: 1908 creation date latest: 1908 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Julian Alden Weir (American, 1852–1919) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 93.5 x 118.5 x 7.5 cm (36 13/16 x 46 5/8 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 76 x 101.6 cm (29 15/16 x 40 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: "J. Alden Weir" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today opening date: 1937-06-23T04:00:00 Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937). title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Landscape opening date: 1962-01-09T05:00:00 Landscape. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 9-April 22, 1962). title: Paintings by J. Alden Weir opening date: 1972-05-06T04:00:00 Paintings by J. Alden Weir. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (organizer) (May 6-June 8, 1972); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (June 20-July 9, 1972); Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT (September 1-October 5, 1972). title: Connecticut and American Impressionsim: The Artists and the Landscape opening date: 1980-03-16T05:00:00 Connecticut and American Impressionsim: The Artists and the Landscape. University of Connecticut, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT (organizer) (March 16-May 30, 1980). title: American Impressionist Paintings opening date: 1990-07-22T04:00:00 American Impressionist Paintings. Gallery Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano-Catagnola, Switzerland (organizer) (July 22-October 28, 1990). title: L'Impressionisme Américain 1880-1915 opening date: 2002-06-06T00:00:00 L'Impressionisme Américain 1880-1915. Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne 8, Switzerland (organizer) (June 6-October 20, 2002). title: The Golden Age of American Impressionism opening date: 2003-11-22T00:00:00 The Golden Age of American Impressionism. Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, Long Island, NY (organizer) (November 22, 2003-February 1, 2004). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists (8 December 1908-18 January 1909), cat. no. 239 as Building a Dam on the Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1908-12-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, (29 April-30 June 1909), cat. no. 282, illus as Building a Dam on the Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1909-04-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, Montross Gallery, The Ten American Painters (24 March-16 April 1910), cat. no. 29 as Building the Dam-Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1910-03-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Boston, St. Botolph Club (1911); opened 11 January 1911; see 1990 exhibition catalogue from Lugano-Castagnola, Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, p. 74.', 'opening_date': '1911-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Buffalo, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, A Collection of Paintings by J. Alden Weir, N.A. (6 September-15 October 1911), cat. no. 15 as Building a Dam on the Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1911-09-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Portland (ME?), Portland Art Asssociation, Loan Exhibition of Paintings (22 September-22 November 1912), cat. no. 17 as The Dam.', 'opening_date': '1912-09-22T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Denver, Denver Public Library (January-February 1916); see Unpublished References: Correspondence between Doreen B. Burke and William S. Talbot (1981) for reference from Weir's journal.", 'opening_date': '1916-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Lynchburg, VA, (March, 1916) see Unpublished References: Correspondence between Doreen B. Burke and William S. Talbot (1981) for reference from Weir's journal.", 'opening_date': '1916-03-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Chicago, Union League Club (April, 1916), see Unpublished References: Correspondence between Doreen B. Burke and William S. Talbot (1981) for reference from Weir's journal.", 'opening_date': '1916-04-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "New York, Montross Gallery (April-May, 1917), see Unpublished References: Correspondence between Doreen B. Burke and William S. Talbot (1981) for reference from Weir's journal.", 'opening_date': '1917-04-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Julian Alden Weir (17 March-20 April 1924), illus. cat. no. 39 as The Building of the Dam.', 'opening_date': '1924-03-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Thomas Eakins, Albert P. Ryder, and J. Alden Weir, (15 December 1927 - 23 January 1928)', 'opening_date': '1927-12-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October 1936), cat. no. 375 as Building a Dam, Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1936-06-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today at The Cleveland Museum of Art (23 June-4 October 1937), cat. no. 204 as Building a Dam, Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1937-06-23T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, A Century of American Landscape Painting, 1800 to 1900 (19 January-25 February 1938), cat. no. 65 as Building a Dam, Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1938-01-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, A Century of American Landscape Painting, 1800-1900 (22 March-30 April 1939), cat. no. 41 as Building a Dam, Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1939-03-22T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, J. Alden Weir 1852-1919: Centennial Exhibition (1 February-30 March 1952), cat. no. 8 as Building a Dam, Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1952-02-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Paintings by Julian Alden Weir (6 May-8 June 1972); traveled to Columbus, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (20 June-9 July 1972); Provo, Utah, The Brigham Young University Art Gallery (1 September-5 October 1972), illus. cat. no. 14 as Building a Dam, Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1972-05-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Storrs, CT, The William Benton Museum of Art, Connecticut and American Impressionism (17 March-30 May 1980), did not travel with show; illus. cat. no. 76, p. 19 as Building a Dam, Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1980-03-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Alden Weir: An American Impressionist (14 October 1983-8 January 1984); traveled to Los Angeles, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (9 February-6 May 1984); Denver, The Denver Art Museum (13 June-19 August 1984), cat. not numbered, illus. p. 243, fig. no. 6.20 as Building a Dam, Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1984-02-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland, Gallery Thyssen-Bornemisza, American Impressionist Paintings (22 July-28 October 1990), illus. cat. no. 26, p. 75 as Building a Dam, Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1990-07-22T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Storrs, CT, The William Benton Musuem of Art, J. Alden Weir: A Place of His Own (4 June-18 August 1991); traveled to Greenwich, CT, The Bruce Museum (15 September-3 November 1991), illus. cat. plate no. 15 as Building a Dam, Shetucket.', 'opening_date': '1991-06-04T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Lausanne, Switzerland, Fondation de l’Hermitage, L’Impressionnisme Américain 1880-1915 (6 June 2002-20 October 2002), illus. cat. no. 57, p. 112 as The Building of the Dam (La construction du barrage).', 'opening_date': '2002-06-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Heckscher Musuem of Art (11/22/2003 - 2/1/2004): "The Golden Age of American Impressionsim"', 'opening_date': '2003-11-22T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Sold in 1923 by the artist's estate to the Phillips Gallery, Washington; sold to the Museum, 1927. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 548 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n102 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 189 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n213 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 189 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n213 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 234 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n254 Dawson, Anne E. "J. Alden Weir in Windham, Connecticut, 1882-1919." In Rare Light: J. Alden Weir in Windham, Connecticut, 1882-1919. Anne Dawson, editor, 9-90. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 48, fig. 2.35 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.171/1927.171_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.171/1927.171_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.171/1927.171_full.tif