Birds in a Park
Classification:
Date:
18th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 47 1/2 x 45 1/4 x 3/4 in. ( 120.7 x 114.9 x 1.9 cm )
Object Number:
X.756
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
17431
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Minute Man
Classification:
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 5/8 x 13 3/4 x 1/16 in. ( 44.8 x 34.9 x 0.2 cm )
Object Number:
X.704d
Marks:
inscriptions: signed lower left: "J. W. D."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
17381
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. James Harvey Lyon
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1830-1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Sarah Lyon
Object Number:
1961.38
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth Mead was born at Horseneck, Connecticut, the daughter of Nathaniel and Martha (Brown) Mead. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her great-granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
17351
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
William W. Van Ness (1776-1823)
Classification:
Date:
1818
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 x 26 3/4 in. ( 83.8 x 67.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Marshall S. Bidwell
Object Number:
1871.2
Gallery Label:
The subject, a native of Claverack, New York, served in the state assembly (1804-06) and became a leader of the Federalist party. In 1807 he was named to the New York Supreme Court where he served until 1820.
Bibliography:
"Review of the Fine Arts," The National Advocate, Vol. 6, no. 1715, July 1, 1818, p. 2.
Catalogue of the Museum and Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1881, p. 60.
Kelby, William, Notes on American Artists 1754-1820: Copied from advertisements appearing in the newspapers of the day, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1922, p. 70.
Bolton, Theodore, and Groce, George C., Jr., "John Wesley Jarvis: An Account of His Life and the First Catalogue of His Work, Art Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 4, Autumn 1938, pp. 299-321.
"Jarvis Centennial Exhibition List," New York; The New-York Historical Society, 1940, p. 1.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society: Oil Portraits, Miniatures, Sculptures, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1941, p. 319.
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. 209-10, 332, 368, 439.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 826-7.
Zygmont, Bryan J., Portraiture and Politics in New York City, 1790-1825, Ph.D. Diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2006, pp. 215-6, 231.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1818
eMuseum Object ID:
17350
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Albert Wyckoff (1778-1855)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1810
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 32 5/8 x 25 7/8 in. ( 82.9 x 65.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Bayard Verplanck
Object Number:
1957.103
Gallery Label:
About 1810 Jarvis painted two adult members of the Wyckoff family, who by coincidence bore names similar to the subject's two sons. These portraits were of an Alexander Robertson Wyckoff (n.d.), owned by the Brooklyn Museum, and Henry L. (sometimes I.) Wyckoff, treasurer of the New York State Chamber of Commerce from 1806 to 1839. Both of these are listed in Dickson, "John Wesley Jarvis" (1949, p. 369, nos. 263 and 264). But no mention is made of the portrait of Mrs. Albert Wyckoff, which...
Bibliography:
"Department of the Museum," Annual Report of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1954, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1955, p. 45.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 914-5.
Carbone, Teresa A., et al., American Paintings in The Brooklyn Museum, Vol. 2, New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pp. 695-6.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
17296
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Croton Water Celebration, NYC, 1842
Classification:
Date:
1938
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 83 x 72 in. ( 210.8 x 182.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, General Fund
Object Number:
1938.404
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1938
eMuseum Object ID:
17287
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Leonard Lewisohn
Classification:
Date:
1899
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
canvas: 87 x 44 in. (221 x 111.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Martin Vogel, Jr.
Object Number:
1976.45
Marks:
Signed and dated lower right: "Carolus Duran / New York Mars 1899"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1899
eMuseum Object ID:
17275
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Over The Hills and Far Away
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1878
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall (unframed): 24 x 42 in. (61 x 106.7 cm)
framed: 31 1/4 x 49 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. ( 79.4 x 125.7 x 6.7 cm )
Description:
Under cloudy, restless daylight sky mountains are seen in rearground; autumnal scene with birch trees to right, low slope to left and lightly traveled path in center, small figures placed in center. The landscape combines bucolic sentiment with foreground detailed realism and design derived from inherent components of the scenery.
Credit Line:
Gift of Richard T. Sharp
Object Number:
1985.23
Marks:
obverse, LR: 'McE'
Provenance:
National Academy of Design, 1878 #484
Sterling Smith, 1879
Channing Baster (grandson of Sterling Smith), 1924
Mrs. M.G. Intner, 1974
Richard T. Sharp, 1981
New-York Historical Society, 1985
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1878
eMuseum Object ID:
17265
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Richard Morris (1730-1810)
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 31 x 26 x 1 in. ( 78.7 x 66 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1979.87
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
17246
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1843
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 48 x 37 1/8 in. ( 121.9 x 94.3 cm )
Frame: 60 x 47 3/4 x 5 in. (152.4 x 121.3 x 12.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor
Object Number:
X.21
Marks:
inscriptions: Back stencil: Prepared /by EDWD Dechaux New York
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1843
eMuseum Object ID:
17245
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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