Dale Nichols | End of the Hunt | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title: End of the Hunt

Artist: Dale Nichols (American, David City, Nebraska 1904–1995 Sedona, Arizona)

Date: 1934

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30 5/16 × 40 in. (77 × 101.6 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1938

Accession Number: 38.173

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): DALE NICHOLS 1934

the artist, Glenview, Ill. (1934–at least 1936); [Macbeth Gallery, New York, until 1938; sold to MMA]

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. "Texas Centennial Exposition: Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures, Graphic Arts," June 6–November 29, 1936, no. 22 (Contemporary American painting section; as "The End of the Hunt," lent by the artist).

New York. Macbeth Gallery. "Paintings by Dale Nichols," January 18–February 1, 1938, no. 1 (as "The End of the Hunt").

Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "American Paintings Since Sargent, Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 4–31, 1940, brochure no. 29.

WPA Art Center, Jacksonville, Fla. "Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 1–31, 1941, no catalogue.

Berlin. Akademie der Künste. "Amerika: Traum und Depression 1920/40," November 9–December 28, 1980, no. 256.

Kunstverein Hamburg. "Amerika: Traum und Depression 1920/40," January 11–February 15, 1981, no. 256.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Landscape Painting," April 4–August 13, 1989, no catalogue.

"Art Throughout America. New York: More Contemporary American Works for the Metropolitan." Art News 37 (February 11, 1939), p. 16.

"Notes: Hearn Purchases." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 34 (February 1939), p. 49.

Whitney N. Morgan. "Recent American Museum Acquisitions." Parnassus 11 (March 1939), p. 27.

"7 U.S. Canvases Are Bought by Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (February 6, 1939), p. 11.

Thomas C. Linn. "Galleries Ready at Metropolitan." New York Times (August 31, 1941), p. D2.

"FSCW to Sponsor Exhibit of Art at Jacksonville." Tallahassee Democrat (February 27, 1941), p. 10.

Grace Pagano. The Encyclopædia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting. Ed. Grace Pagano. Chicago, 1946, unpaginated.

Matthew Baigell. The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930's. New York, 1974, colorpl. 21.