Head of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Graphite on paper backed with yellow album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 7/8 x 1 3/4 in. ( 7.3 x 4.4 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number:
1979.23d
Gallery Label:
This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
44441
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bust Portrait of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Graphite on paper backed with yellow album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 x 1 11/16 in. ( 5.1 x 4.3 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number:
1979.23c
Gallery Label:
This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
44440
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Profile Portrait of Martin Johnson (1884-1937)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1936
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 5 in. ( 17.8 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.218
Marks:
signature: left: "Wm HWalker"
inscription and date: lower left: "Dutch Treat Club / Nov 10/36"
inscriptions: lower center and right: "Martin Johnson / MARTIN JOHNSON / EXPLORER"
Inscriptions:
Signed at middle left in graphite: "Wm H Walker"; inscribed along lower edge: "Dutch Trea Club / Nov 10/36 / MARTIN JOHNSON EXPLORER"; signed by sitter at lower center: "Martin Johnson."
Gallery Label:
A partner of Jack London in his seafaring adventures, Johnson later traveled with his wife, Osa (née Osa Helen Leighty), to Borneo and Africa. The couple made numerous documentary films and several feature films based on their experiences.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1936
eMuseum Object ID:
44439
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Caricature of John Charles Thomas (1891-1960)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1935
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/16 x 5 1/16 in. ( 17.9 x 12.9 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.202
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Wm.H.Walker / Dutch Treat Club / June 11/35 / St. Regis"
inscription: upper left: "John Charles Thomas"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Wm. H. Walker / Dutch Treat Club / June 11/35 / St Regis"; signed by sitter at upper left: "John Charles Thomas"
Gallery Label:
An operatic baritone, Thomas had his recital debut in New York City in 1921. He performed with the Metropolitan Opera Co. from 1933 to 1945.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
44427
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Study for "Carmen Jones"
Classification:
Date:
1944
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 6 3/4 in. (12.7 x 17.1 cm)
Description:
A free study in reverse of dancing figures for the painting "Carmen Jones," based on the musical by Oscar Hammerstein the II, first performed in New York City in 1943.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Laurie Vance Johnson and Edward Dudley Hume Johnson
Object Number:
2001.104
Marks:
Inscribed: Lower left in green watercolor: "[illegible]...Carmen Jones 'Happy Easter!' "
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at bottom in green watercolor: "[illegible]...Carmen Jones 'Happy Easter!' "
Gallery Label:
The drawing was a gift from the artist to Edward Dudley Hume Johnson for Easter. It is a study in reverse for the oil on canvas painting in the collection (2001.102). Another drawing of a single figure in the collection is also related to the painting (2001.103).
Provenance:
Kleeman Galleries, New York City; Laurie Vance and E.D.H. Johnson, Princeton, New Jersey
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1944
eMuseum Object ID:
44419
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Study for "Victory Garden, Bronx, New York"
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1946-47
Medium:
Graphite, gouache, and black ink on Army Air Forces stationery with logo
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 x 8 /12 inches
Description:
The first preparatory study for the painting of the same title depicting a neighborhood victory garden, located next to a World War I monument in a small triangular park at the intersection of Ogden and University Avenues, next to the IRT #4 line in the Bronx.
Credit Line:
Gift of Betty Spitz
Object Number:
2001.28
Marks:
Inscribed and dated at lower rig: original sketch for "Monument" / ptg. 1947.
Gallery Label:
The sheet is a preparatory study for the painting of the same title in the New-York Historical Society Collection.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1947
eMuseum Object ID:
44418
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dancing Figure
Classification:
Date:
1944
Medium:
Black ink and watercolor over graphite on paper coated with albumen glazing laid on board
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/2 x 4 5/8 in. ( 16.5 x 11.7 cm )
Description:
A freely rendered, expressionistic dancing female figure facing left and dressed in classicizing drapery.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Laurie Vance Johnson and Edward Dudley Hume Johnson
Object Number:
2001.103
Marks:
Inscribed: Lower left in brown ink: "To Dudley from all of us"
Signed and dated: Lower left in black ink: "Corbino 44"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown watercolor: "To Dudley from all of us"; signed and inscrbed below in black ink: "Corbino 44"
Gallery Label:
The sheet is related to the painting "Carmen Jones" (2001.102) as well as the preparatory compositional study in reverse (2001.104).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1944
eMuseum Object ID:
44417
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Manhattan in a Book
Classification:
Date:
2000
Medium:
Watercolor, brown ink, and gouache on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 7/16 x 10 5/16 in. (18.9 x 26.2 cm)
Description:
The sheet illustrates the artist's conceptual process and the transition from the "real" cityscape of Manhattan to the "drawn," in which the cityscape transforms itself into a book.
Credit Line:
Gift of Matteo Pericoli
Object Number:
2001.158
Marks:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Mpericoli 00"; verso inscribed at upper left in graphite: "MATTEO PERICOLI / JULY 2000 / 'MANHATTAN IN A BOOK'"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Mpericoli 00"; verso inscribed at upper left in graphite: "MATTEO PERICOLI / JULY 2000 / 'MANHATTAN IN A BOOK'"
Gallery Label:
Commissioned by Maria B. Campbell Associates Inc., an international literary agency based in New York, this work serves as the signature design of the company's Website.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
2000
eMuseum Object ID:
44416
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
George James Cornell (c. 1821-1857): Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1840
Medium:
Black prepared blue paper cut-out, mounted on card with irregular window cut out to reveal inscription on verso
Dimensions:
frame: 12 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 1/2 in. ( 32.4 x 14.6 x 1.3 cm )
image height: 8 1/4 in. ( 21 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length male figure in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on cream paper; on verso of cream card, window cut out to reveal inscription on verso of black cut-out; rectangular black-painted wood frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Lena Cadwalader Evans
Object Number:
Z.2399
Marks:
inscribed in ink: below figure: "George Jas. Cornell"
inscribed in ink: on back of paper: "George Jas. Cornell / New York 15th Jan'ry 1840."
Inscriptions:
Label pasted below image inscribed in brown ink: "George Jas. Cornell" (autograph of sitter); blue paper of silhouette verso read through window of card inscribed in brown ink: "George Jas. Cornell / New YK 15th Janry. 1840."
Gallery Label:
The subject is listed as follows in the "Complete List of 3,800 Silhouette Portraits of American Citizens Taken Between 1839-1849 by August Edouart . . .": "Cornell, Geo. James (New York, Jan 14, 1840)." See Andrew Oliver, "Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844" (1977), p. 518.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
44399
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Profile Portrait of Benjamin Barr Lindsey (1869-1943)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1930
Medium:
Graphite on gray brown paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/8 x 4 in. ( 16.2 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.110
Marks:
signature: lower left: "W.H.W."
inscription and date: upper right: "Dutch Treat Dec 16/30"
inscriptions: lower center: "Sincerely / Ben B Lindsey" and lower right: "Judge Ben LINDSEY"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in graphite: "W.H.W."; inscribed at upper center: "Dutch Treat Club Dec 16/30"; at lower right: "Judge Ben Lindsey"; signed by sitter in graphite at lower center: "Sincerely / Ben B Lindsey"
Gallery Label:
A noted jurist and social reformer, the subject was especially concerned with child welfare.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
44378
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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