Keywords: Thomas Cole - A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains.jpg Artwork Creator Thomas Cole 1839 oil canvas cm 102 155 8 National Gallery of Art Gallery 64 object history Provenance Commissioned 1839 by Rufus L Lord 1782-1869 New York Jonathan Sturges 1802-1874 New York and Fairfield Connecticut; his son Henry C Sturges d 1924 Fairfield Connecticut; his wife Mrs Henry C Sturges Fairfield Connecticut; LeRoy Ireland Philadelphia probably early 1930s but certainly by 1944; purchased June 1944 by Vose Galleries Boston ; sold 5 April 1945 to Sanitary Scale Company Belvidere Illinois; acquired 1966 by Kennedy Galleries New York ; purchased 25 May 1967 by NGA lower left T Cole / 1839 accession number 1967 8 1 http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f acc 1967 8 1 National Gallery of Art Washington DC PD-old-100 The Notch of the White Mountains Crawford Notch by Thomas Cole |