Artist: Franklin DeHaven, N.A.
Nationality: American, Blufton, Indiana 1856 – 1934 New York City
Title: Woodland Monarch, 1933
Medium: oil on canvas, 30 X 25 inches
Provenance:The artist; Buck Hill Art Association, purchased for $300. [BHAA GeneralMeeting August 20, 1933] [BHAA Annual Meeting Minutes August 12, 1934], while on exhibition at Buck Hill 1933. DeHaven is quoted in a letter published in the Buck Hill Breeze, 25 August 1933, stating that Woodland Monarch was completed in March 1933.
Date Acquired by BHAA: 1933
Credit line: Buck Hill Art Association Purchase Prize 1933.
Exhibitions: Buck Hill Falls, The Inn at Buck Hill, Early Summer Exhibition, 15 June – 15 July, 1933. Buck Hill Falls, The Inn at Buck Hill, Exhibition of Paintings by 20 Members of the Salmagundi Club, July 15th to August 15, 1933, no. 23. Buck Hill Falls, The Inn at Buck Hill, Exhibition of Paintings by Cullen Yates, N.A., August 15 to September 15, 1933, no. 25a. Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, The Inn at buck HIll Falls, Buck Hill Art Association, Thirtieth Anniversary Retrospective Art Exhibiton, August 16 to September 5, 1963, no. 25.
Publications: Buck Hill Breeze, August 17, 1934, “Art association Selects Purchase Prize Painting,” (continued from page 1). Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, Buck Hill, Buck Hill Art Association, Permanent Collection, 1976, p. 34.
References: Cleveland, David Adams, A History of American Tonalism, 2nd ed., 2017, for DeHaven in context of American tonalist painting, pp. 459-65.