Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of the Americas: July 2009–June 2011
Night
1890
William Edward Norton
Height x length: 23 x 30 in. (58.4 x 76.2 cm) (unframed) (frame is roughly 4 inches wide)
Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Accession number: 2011.188
Provenance/Ownership History: Possibly with the artist in London; before the 1920s, J. Eastman Chase Gallery, Boston; January 29, 2010, anonymous sale, Skinner, Boston, lot 360; to Avery Galleries, Boston; 2011, sold by Avery to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 27, 2011)
Harry Wallace Anderson Fund