Hudson Park, New Rochelle

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1935
Medium: 
Black ink over graphite with touches of gouache on Bristol Board
Dimensions: 
Overall: 22 1/8 x 15 in. ( 56.2 x 38.1 cm )
Description: 
Landscape
Credit Line: 
Gift of Thomas W. Dewart
Object Number: 
1981.33
Marks: 
Signed: at lower right: Inscribed: "New Rochelle 1935"
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right inside image in black ink: 'Vernon Howe Bailey / New Rochelle 1935"; outside image in graphite: "1[encircled] / Hudson Park (City Park"' verso inscribed at upper left: "Vol 5 / 0563[encircled]"; at lower center: "Echo Bay Yacht Club[encircled]"; below: "Hudson Park Bonnefoi Point. / (Municipal Park)"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1935
eMuseum Object ID: 
40255
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Arthur Ingram Boreman (1823-1896), First and Wartime Governor of West Virginia

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1863
Medium: 
Black ink and wash and brown ink on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 7 x 4 1/4 in. ( 17.8 x 10.8 cm ) mat: 18 x 14 in. ( 45.7 x 35.6 cm )
Description: 
Arthur Ingram Boreman was the first governor of the U.S. state of West Virginia and a United States Senator. Boreman was born in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. At the age of four, his family relocated to Middlebourne, Tyler County, which was then part of Virginia. In 1861 he presided over the Second Wheeling Convention, which established the Restored Government of Virginia as a step toward the establishment of a separate State of West Virginia. He served as governor of West Virginia from 1863 to 1869 and U.S. Senator from 1869 to 1875.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr.
Object Number: 
1904.13
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at lower black wash: "Whiting[?] 1863"; reputedly old mount inscribed: "Arthur I. Boreman, First and War Governor of West Virginia"
Gallery Label: 
Arthur I. Boreman was born in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, studied law, and was active in politics. In 1863 he became the first governor of West Virginia, and in 1868 was elected to the United States Senate, in which he served one term.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1863
eMuseum Object ID: 
40125
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Wooded Stream with Fisherman, from disassembled Cummings album

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1827-32
Medium: 
Graphite on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 4 3/4 x 6 3/8 in. ( 12.1 x 16.2 cm )
Description: 
Landscape
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number: 
1979.47
Marks: 
signed: lower left: "J. Morton"
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "J Morton"
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: 
1827
eMuseum Object ID: 
40119
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Landscape with Central Tree, from disassembled Cummings album

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1827-32
Medium: 
Graphite on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 4 3/4 x 6 3/8 in. ( 12.1 x 16.2 cm )
Description: 
Landscape
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number: 
1979.46
Marks: 
signed: lower right: "J. L. Morton"
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right in graphite: "J Morton"
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: 
1827
eMuseum Object ID: 
40118
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Woman in Prison, Folio no.12 the John Ludlow Morton Album

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1828
Medium: 
Black ink and wash over graphite with scratching out on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. ( 15.6 x 11.7 cm )
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Object Number: 
1944.377
Marks: 
signed and dated: lower right: "J. L. Morton/1828"
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right outside image in graphite: "J L Morton / 1828"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1828
eMuseum Object ID: 
40117
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Title Page Vignette, Folio 1 in the John Ludlow Morton Album: Landscape with Rock Inscribed with the Names of 23 Artists

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1826
Medium: 
Graphite on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 8 1/2 x 7 in. ( 21.6 x 17.8 cm )
Description: 
This study shows a rustic setting with a large rock on which the artist has inscribed the names of twenty-three artists.
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Object Number: 
1944.365
Marks: 
initialed and dated: lower right: "J L M 1826"
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right outside image in graphite: "JLM -- 1826"; rock inscribed from upper left: "MARSIGLIA; AGATE; WALL; EDMONDS; ROGERS; WEIR; DURAND; WRIGHT; PROCTOR; FLAGG; EVERS; SULLY; HARVEY; INGHAM; MORSE; INMAN; POTTER; CUMMINGS; BENNET; COLE; DANFORTH; GRAIN; MORTON"
Gallery Label: 
This is the title page of a book of drawings assembled by John Ludlow Morton of sketches by various artist friends and individually presented to him for inclusion in this book of friends, conceived in a style similar to the seventeenth-century album amicorum.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1826
eMuseum Object ID: 
40114
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Personification of Painting with Wings, Folio no.15 in the John Ludlow Morton Album

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1827
Medium: 
Graphite on paper, bound into an album
Dimensions: 
Overall: 8 1/8 x 7 in. ( 20.6 x 17.8 cm )
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Object Number: 
1944.380
Marks: 
signed and dated: lower right: "C. C. Wright, 1827"
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right in graphite: "C.C. Wright 1827"
Gallery Label: 
This is one of may sketches by various artists mounted in a book of drawings assembled by John Ludlow Morton (q.v.) owned by the Society.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1827
eMuseum Object ID: 
40111
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Justice James Francis Byrnes (1879-1972)

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1944
Medium: 
Watercolor, gouache, and white tempera on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 23 1/2 x 18 7/8 in. ( 59.7 x 47.9 cm )
Description: 
Portrait
Credit Line: 
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number: 
1947.177
Marks: 
signature: lower left: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower left in black ink: "Enit Kaufman"
Gallery Label: 
Byrnes began his political career in 1911 as Democratic representative from his native state of So. Carolina; in 1931 he became a U.S. Senator; FDR appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1941, but the following year he resigned to become director of economic stabilization; he was named director of the War Mobilization Board in 1943; he served as sec'y of state under Truman and was elected governor of So. Carolina in 1950; he later served as a diplomat.
Provenance: 
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1944
eMuseum Object ID: 
40109
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Fraktur: Certificate of the Birth and Baptism of Johannes [?] in Lebanon, Pennsylvania

Collections: 
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1808
Medium: 
Gouache and brown ink over graphite on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 13 1/8 x 16 3/8 in. ( 33.3 x 41.6 cm )
Description: 
Fraktur: Horizontal rectangular sheet with handwritten German inscription enclosed in an octagonal frame with red, green, yellow, and black diamond border at center, with a large tulip on a long, ornately decorated stalk on either side; cherub at center top.
Credit Line: 
Elie Nadelman, Museum of Folk Arts, Riverdale-on-Hudson, Bronx, New York
Object Number: 
1937.1824
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed in German at upper center: "Diesen beiten Ehegatten als / David Heiß und seiner Ehlichen Haus / Frau Marrita eine geborne / [illegible] ist ein Sohn zur welt gebore, / namens Johanne im Jahr / unsers Hern Jesu 1808 den 2ten / Tag Martz Diser Sohn ist / geboren und getauft in America im / Staat Pensilfanien Lebanon County / Lebanon Taunschib. Dieser obgennet / de Johannes ist getauft worten / von Hern Wiliam [illegible] / Die Taufzeugen Adam G[illegible] und sein frau." Verso inscribed in German: "Johannes Heiß ist confirmirt worden den 4ten Maÿ 1826. / Zum heiligen Abendmahl hin zu gelaufen den 7 Maÿ / Er [illegible] in den Ehepaar mit Catharina [Stentbek?] den 21ten December im Jahr 1834."
Gallery Label: 
The Pennsylvania Germans practiced a manuscript art called Frakturschrift or Zierschrift in German ("fraktur" in museum and collecting terminology). This art form, combining calligraphy with decorative motifs in ink and watercolor, was produced widely in Pennsylvania and in German settlements in other states from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1808
eMuseum Object ID: 
40055
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Seacoast, Ogunquit, Maine

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1893
Medium: 
Watercolor, graphite, and touches of yellow gouache on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 10 x 14 in. ( 25.4 x 35.6 cm ) mat: 14 x 18 in. ( 35.6 x 45.7 cm )
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number: 
1933.182
Marks: 
signed and dated: lower right: "Ogunquit, Maine/Lucy M. Durand Woodman/1893"
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed and signed at lower right in black ink: "Ogunquite, Maine / Lucy M Durand Woodman.. / 1893"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1893
eMuseum Object ID: 
40047
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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