The American Soldier: The Spanish-American War
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1943
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, and touches of gouache on Whatman illustration board
Dimensions:
Overall: 26 x 17 5/8 in. ( 66 x 44.8 cm )
Description:
Illustration: One of six watercolors from the 1943 Calendar 'The American Soldier', from the Berwind-White Coal Mining Co., founded 1874 in western Pennsylvania.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Charles E. Dunlap
Object Number:
1953.49e
Gallery Label:
Drawing depicted in the American Soldier Calendar for 1943. Received the Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia Award presented to the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company for the Best Color Illustration in Direct Mail Advertising, 12th Annual Exhibition of Advertising Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1943
eMuseum Object ID:
36993
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The American Soldier: The Mexican War
Classification:
Date:
1943
Medium:
Watercolor and black ink on Whatman illustration board
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 7/8 x 19 3/4 in. ( 65.7 x 50.2 cm )
Description:
Illustration: One of six watercolors from the 1943 Calendar 'The American Soldier', from the Berwind-White Coal Mining Co., founded 1874 in western Pennsylvania.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Charles E. Dunlap
Object Number:
1953.49c
Marks:
signed: bottom left: "GORDON/HAKE"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left inside image in black ink: "GORDON / HAKE"
Gallery Label:
Drawing depicted in the American Soldier Calendar for 1943. Received the Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia Award presented to the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company for the Best Color Illustration in Direct Mail Advertising, 12th Annual Exhibition of Advertising Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1943
eMuseum Object ID:
36958
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The American Soldier: The Revolutionary War
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1943
Medium:
Watercolor and black ink on Whatman illustration board
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 7/16 x 19 9/16 in. ( 64.6 x 49.7 cm )
Description:
Illustration: One of six watercolors from the 1943 Calendar 'The American Soldier', from the Berwind-White Coal Mining Co., founded 1874 in western Pennsylvania.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Charles E. Dunlap
Object Number:
1953.49a
Marks:
signed: bottom left, ink: "GORDON/HAKE"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left inside image in black ink: "GORDON / HAKE"
Gallery Label:
Drawing depicted in the American Soldier Calendar for 1943. Received the Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia Award presented to the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company for the Best Color Illustration in Direct Mail Advertising, 12th Annual Exhibition of Advertising Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1943
eMuseum Object ID:
36949
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Panoramic View of New York City from the Hudson River (c. 1839)
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Watercolor, brown ink, red gouache, and graphite with scratching out on paper laid on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 28 3/8 in. ( 20.3 x 72.1 cm )
Description:
Cityscape
Object Number:
1943.401
Marks:
inscription: lower right: "New York from North River"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "New York from North River."
Gallery Label:
This is a copy by an unidentified artist of the original view, which was drawn, engraved, and published by Robert Havell, 172 Fulton Street, New York, 1840. A copy of this early state is in the Print Room of the Society. It is also known as the Havell North River View. This watercolor copy lacks some of the shipping seen in the original plate.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
36619
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Old Croton Dam, Westchester County, New York
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
after 1842
Medium:
Graphite on brown gray paper removed from a sketchbook
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 5/8 x 10 1/8 in. ( 14.3 x 25.7 cm )
Object Number:
X.331
Inscriptions:
Various color and measurment annotations
Gallery Label:
The dam was erected between 1837 and 1842 on the Croton River in Westchester County as part of a new water system designed to provide New York City with water. The identity of Havell as the artist is cited from a mat formerly with the sketch. Another mid-nineteenth-century study of the old Croton Dam by Jervis McEntee (1828-91) is also in the Society's collection.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
36618
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bird's Eye View of The City of New York
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1855
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, gouache, and selective glazing on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 1/4 x 20 3/8 in. ( 36.2 x 51.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, Accessions Sales Fund
Object Number:
1949.27
Marks:
signed: lower right: "W. S. Hattory"
inscription: lower left: "The City of New York / 1855"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in gray watercolor: "W.S. Hattory."; at lower left: "The City of New-York. / -- 1855."
Gallery Label:
An aerial view looking north from New York harbor to the edge of Harlem depicts Governors Island at the lower right, Brooklyn at the right, and busy traffic in the East and Hudson rivers.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
36617
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
First Congregational Church, Norwalk Green, Connecticut
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1935
Medium:
Black ink over graphite with scratching out and touches of gouache on board
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 1/8 x 14 15/16 in. ( 56.2 x 37.9 cm )
Description:
Architecture
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas W. Dewart
Object Number:
1981.76
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower right and inscribed: Norwalk 1935
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right inside image in black ink: "Vernon Howe Bailey / Norwalk 1935"; verso inscribed at center in black crayon: "First Congregational Church / Norwalk Green"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
36510
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Broadway, Valhalla, New York
Classification:
Date:
1935
Medium:
Black ink over graphite with touches of gouache on board
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 1/16 x 15 in. ( 56 x 38.1 cm )
Description:
Townscape
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas W. Dewart
Object Number:
1981.67
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower right and inscribed: Valhalla 1935
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right inside image in black ink: "Vernon Howe Bailey / Valhalla 1935"; at lower right outside image in graphite: "Valhalla. Broadway."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
36509
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Harriet LeRoy Steward Van Horne Stuyvesant (1842-1872)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1855
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, black ink, and white gouache on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 x 10 7/8 in. ( 33 x 27.6 cm )
frame: 19 1/4 x 17 x 2 in. ( 48.9 x 43.2 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr.
Object Number:
1957.53
Marks:
inscriptions: none
Gallery Label:
Harriet LeRoy Steward was the daughter of John Steward and Catherine Elizabeth (White) Steward of Goshen, N.Y. She married Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant in 1864.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
36507
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Miss Brown: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1859
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; on verso: silhouette Z.2613b
Dimensions:
image height: 9 1/4 in. ( 23.5 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. ( 27.3 x 19.4 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on rectangular sheet of cream paper. Another silhouette on verso.
Object Number:
Z.2613a
Marks:
inscribed in ink: lower right: "Brown"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Brown"
Gallery Label:
This silhouette belongs to a group of forty-five silhouettes of faculty and students of Miss Haines's School that were taken on November 12, 1859.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1859
eMuseum Object ID:
36441
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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