For the Track

Provenance

Private collections, from the 1930s;[1] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, 1 June 1984, no. 32); purchased through (Hirschl & Adler, New York) by Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., Los Angeles; gift (partial and promised) 1997 to NGA; gift completed 2008. [1] The painting passed through three generations of one family before its sale in 1984.

For the Track

Peto, John Frederick

1895

Accession Number

1997.131.1

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 110.49 × 75.88 cm (43 1/2 × 29 7/8 in.) | framed: 136.53 × 101.6 × 5.4 cm (53 3/4 × 40 × 2 1/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., in honor of Earl A. Powell III