Come to America Where Happiness Rains Down From The Sky

Classification: 
Date: 
1997
Medium: 
Graphite on illustration board, overmatted
Dimensions: 
Overall: 17 x 14 in. ( 43.2 x 35.6 cm )
Description: 
Portrait
Credit Line: 
Gift of Sal Monetti
Object Number: 
2000.894
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right in graphite: "Sal Monetti / June 23, 1997"; at middle right: "come to america / where happiness rains down / from the sky."
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1997
eMuseum Object ID: 
35092
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Hagar, Ishmael, and the Angel, Folio no.7 in the John Ludlow Morton Album

Classification: 
Date: 
1827
Medium: 
Graphite on paper bound into album
Dimensions: 
Overall: 8 1/4 x 6 7/8 in. ( 21 x 17.5 cm )
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Object Number: 
1944.372
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Durand 1827"; at lower center: "Hager"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1827
eMuseum Object ID: 
35088
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Rural Scene: Man Riding a Horse and Two Men Fishing, Folio no.8 in the John Ludlow Morton Album

Classification: 
Date: 
1827
Medium: 
Graphite on paper bound into album
Dimensions: 
Overall: 8 1/4 x 6 7/8 in. ( 21 x 17.5 cm )
Description: 
Genre
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Object Number: 
1944.373
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right in graphite: "AB Durand 1827"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1827
eMuseum Object ID: 
35087
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

View at Milton, New York

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1842
Medium: 
Graphite
Description: 
Townscape
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number: 
1935.172[dup]
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1842
eMuseum Object ID: 
35081
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Seated European Woman Wearing a Bonnet

Classification: 
Date: 
c. 1840-41
Medium: 
Graphite on paper laid on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 5 1/16 x 3 9/16 in. ( 12.9 x 9 cm )
Description: 
Figure
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number: 
1935.171
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed and signed along lower border in graphite: "In Europe / by AB Durand[partially erased]"
Provenance: 
Descent through the artist's family
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1841
eMuseum Object ID: 
35080
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sketchbook with 59 Folios, 10 blank

Classification: 
Is owned by NYHS: 
Yes
Date: 
1866
Medium: 
Graphite and white chalk on off-white, brown, and green paper bound into a sketchbook
Dimensions: 
Overall: 5 x 8 in. ( 12.7 x 20.3 cm )
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number: 
1935.173
Marks: 
Inscribed: inside of front cover at upper right:"A. B. Durand / 91 Amity St./ New York", and the later address "South Orange, N.J." Inscribed: inside front cover at center: "The work of / my Father. / Property of Lucy M. Durand Woodman" Inscribed: ins
Inscriptions: 

Inscribed on inner front cover at upper right in graphite: "A.B. Durand / 91 Amity… / New York"; at left: "South Orange / N.J."; at center: "The work of / my Father / ['Property of' by a later hand] Lucy M. Durand Woodman"

Gallery Label: 

Durand filled this pocket sketchbook with careful studies of tree trunks, branches and boulders. He usually worked in an upright format, echoing the vertical thrust of his subjects and sometimes extending his drawing over both pages in order to capture all of the motifs that interested him.

Provenance: 

Descent through the artist's family

Date End: 
1866
eMuseum Object ID: 
35078
Sort order: 
5
Exclude from TMS update: 
OFF
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Baroque Italian Arch

Classification: 
Date: 
1841
Medium: 
Graphite on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 10 1/8 x 6 7/8 in. ( 25.7 x 17.5 cm ) mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Description: 
Landscape
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number: 
1918.118
Provenance: 
Descent through the artist's family
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1841
eMuseum Object ID: 
35074
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Buildings in Veletri, Italy

Classification: 
Date: 
1841
Medium: 
Graphite on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 8 1/2 x 11 5/16 in. ( 21.6 x 28.7 cm ) mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Description: 
Architecture
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number: 
1918.116
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at lower right in graphite: 'Veletri March 29th 1841"
Provenance: 
Descent through the artist's family
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1841
eMuseum Object ID: 
35072
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Flathead (Woman with Infant in Head-Molding Board, Two Children, and One Man)

Classification: 
Date: 
1866-68
Medium: 
Graphite and black ink on card
Dimensions: 
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 46.7 x 61.3 cm )
Description: 
Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: two adult males, one with a long bow, a boy and a female with an infant carried in the traditional Flathead cradle with a board mounted over the infant's head to attain the desired flat, sloping forehead that earned this tribe their name
Credit Line: 
Purchased by the Society
Object Number: 
1872.23.91
Marks: 
inscriptions: Signed
Inscriptions: 
Signed at right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 91. / Flathead"; at lower border outside image in black ink: "300 298 299"
Provenance: 
The artist's collection; Francis Putnam Catlin, the artist's brother, serving as agent to George Henry Moore, acting on behalf of N-YHS
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1868
eMuseum Object ID: 
35056
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Kiowa (Two Men, One Woman, and Child with Horses in Background)

Classification: 
Date: 
1866-68
Medium: 
Graphite and black ink on card
Dimensions: 
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 46.7 x 61.3 cm )
Description: 
Ethnography. Studies of Native Americans: Teet-toot-sa, the head Chief, another male and a female with a child, with a sketch of a horse in the background
Credit Line: 
Purchased by the Society
Object Number: 
1872.23.70
Marks: 
inscriptions: Signed
Inscriptions: 
Signed at right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 70. / Kiowa"; at lower border outside image in black ink: "234 233. 235"
Provenance: 
The artist's collection; Francis Putnam Catlin, the artist's brother, serving as agent to George Henry Moore, acting on behalf of N-YHS
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1868
eMuseum Object ID: 
35054
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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