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Dimensions: measurements 18 by 12 1/4 in. alternate measurements (45.7 by 31.1 cm)

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Provenance: Hermann Warner Williams, Washington, D.C., late 1930s
George P. Guerry, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand H. Davis, New York
Lee B. Anderson, New York
Robert Mann, Miami, Florida
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1973
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1973

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Literature: Donelson Hoopes, "The Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr. Collection," American Art Review, September-October 1973, p. 52, illustrated
Linda Ayres, "An American perspective: nineteenth-century art from the collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr.," The Magazine Antiques, January 1982, p. 266, illustrated in color pl. XIII
Claire Perry, Young America: Childhood in Nineteenth Century Art and Culture, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006, illustrated in color p. 39

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JO ANN AND JULIAN GANZ, JR.
"Resting in the Woods depicts a pensive young girl in repose outdoors. The way in which [John George Brown] has rendered the various textures - of her straw hat, shoes, luscious pink dress, and of the mossy rock and the bark and leaves - is one indication of his skill. But the real artistic achievement is revealed in Brown's early use of sunlight as it filters through the leaves. It is a hard, white light that objectively describes the figure and its surroundings. Predating by ten years similar works of solitary, introspective women outdoors by Winslow Homer, it is a work of enormous beauty and force" (Linda Ayres, An American Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Art from the collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr., 1981, p. 53-54).