Harbor Island, Lake George, N.Y.
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1872
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 x 24 in. ( 43.2 x 61 cm )
frame: 26 1/4 x 33 7/8 x 2 3/4 in. ( 66.7 x 86 x 7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.22
Marks:
inscription: inscribed on stretcher, in pencil: "Deers/Leap/Lake/George, N.Y."
Framer's label: 'Thos. A. wilmurt / Mirrors and Picture Frames / 54 E. 13th St., New York.' (Thomas A. Wilmurt was listed in the New York City directory at 54 East 13th Stree
Provenance:
The artist and his family.
Bibliography:
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887, p. 26, no. 345.
Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, pp. 262-3, 381-5, 664-5, Figs. 136-7.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 189-90.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 360.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1872
eMuseum Object ID:
22866
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. John McNeil (1788-1855)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1830-1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 29 in. ( 91.4 x 73.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Marion L. (Benham) Dielman
Object Number:
1939.538
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth Pierce was the daughter of Governor Benjamin Pierce of New Hampshire and Anna (Kendrick) Pierce. President Benjamin Franklin Pierce was her brother. She married John McNeil, a soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and rose to the rank of general, on December 25, 1811.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
22764
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Benjamin Armitage
Classification:
Date:
n.d. (early 19th century?)
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 3/4 x 24 x 3/4 in. ( 75.6 x 61 x 1.9 cm )
with accessory: 35 1/4 x 29 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 89.5 x 74 x 5.7
Credit Line:
Bequest of Cynthia Fraser
Object Number:
1986.18
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
22632
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
William Scott
Classification:
Date:
n.d
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 35 7/8 x 28 in. ( 91.1 x 71.1 cm )
with accessory: 40 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. ( 102.2 x 81.9 x 3.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Cynthia Fraser
Object Number:
1986.19
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
22631
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pilgrims Going To Church
Classification:
Date:
1867
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall (unframed): 29 x 52 in. (73.7 x 132.1 cm)
Overall (framed): 43 1/2 x 67 x 4 in. (110.5 x 170.2 x 10.2 cm)
Description:
This composition depicts the Puritans as a small group of God-fearing souls who endured harsh winters to establish a foothold in the New World; this work reflects the influence of the peasant procession paintings by the French artists Jules and Bastien LePage; the outer molding of this frame appears to be of American manufacture, while the inner liner is English, and incorporates a rosette motif found on the frames of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite artists.
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-117
Gallery Label:
This painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1867, and at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. Purchased in 1868 by Robert L. Stuart.
Bibliography:
"The Exhibition of the Royal Academy: Third Notice," Times, London, May 14, 1867, p. 6.
"Fine Arts: Royal Academy," Athenaeum, May 25, 1867, p. 697.
"Boughton's Puritans," Harper's Weekly, April 25, 1868, p. 265.
"George H. Boughton", The Portfolio: an artistic periodical, Vol. 2, 1871, pp. 67-70.
Baldry, A.L., "G.H. Boughton, P.A. His Life and Work," The Christman Art Annual of the Art Journal, Devember 1940, pp. 30-1.
"Plans are Being Completed for D.A.R. Pageant," Oil City, PA., Blizzard, November 28, 1941, n.p.
"Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton," The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 24, 1968, Rotocomic Section.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 76-9.
"Imagine You hear a strange sound in the woods," American Girl, November/December 1994, p. 49.
Glesmann, Amanda J., Sentimental Journey: Envisioning the American Past in George Henry Boughton's Pilgrim's Going to Church, (M.A. Thesis, University of Delaware, 2002), pp. 3, 7, 31-4, 70.
Vedder, Lee A. "Nineteenth-Century American paintings." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 146-155.
Herrmann, Luke, "Van Gogh's favourite English artist George Boughton (1833-1905), British Art Journal, Vol. 6, Winter 2005, pp. 37-40.
Keck, Michaela, Walking in the Wilderness: The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth Century American Literature and Painting, Heidelberg: Winter, 2006, pp. 71-7.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1867
eMuseum Object ID:
22545
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Quietude
Classification:
Date:
1901
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 1/4 x 27 in. ( 46.4 x 68.6 cm )
frame: 22 1/2 x 31 3/4 in. ( 57.2 x 80.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Adelaide Milton de Groot
Object Number:
1941.395
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1901
eMuseum Object ID:
22469
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Catherine Reed
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1831
Medium:
oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 in. ( 76.2 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Miranda Constant Marvin
Object Number:
1992.4
Gallery Label:
Luman Reed (1785-1836) to; his widow, Mrs. Luman Reed (nee Mary Barker, 1786-1869) to; Mr. (1800-1850) and Mrs. (nee Catharine Reed, 1800-1850) Theodore Allen; to their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. (?-?) and Mrs. (nee Mary Fuller Allen, 1844-1881) William Sinclair Constant to; their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. (nee Isabel Peterson, ?-?) William Sinclair Constant, Jr. to; their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. (nee Beatrice Talbot Constant, ?-?) Walter Rumsey Marvin to; their daugh
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1831
eMuseum Object ID:
22466
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Fifth Avenue, New York City
Classification:
Date:
1906
Medium:
Oil on burlap
Dimensions:
Overall: 39 x 27 in. ( 99.1 x 68.6 cm )
Description:
This view, looking north, features the world-famous old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel between 33rd and 34th Streets, now the site of the Empire State Building in Mid-Town Manhattan.
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1940.956
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1906
eMuseum Object ID:
22465
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Empire State Building, N.Y.C.
Classification:
Date:
1940
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 40 x 30 in. ( 101.6 x 76.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Works Projects Administration
Object Number:
1940.978
Marks:
Signature: at lower right: PERELLI; and on stretcher in pencil: VICTOR PERELLI
Gallery Label:
This painting was executed under the United States government-sponsored Works Progress Administration art program.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
22464
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Park Avenue at 42nd Street, N.Y.C
Classification:
Date:
1927
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 × 30 in. (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Framed: 31 × 36 in. (78.7 × 91.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Howard Thain
Object Number:
1970.40
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1927
eMuseum Object ID:
22463
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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