Fishing in a Catboat in Great South Bay
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1871
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 29 x 39 1/4 in. ( 73.7 x 99.7 cm )
frame: 35 x 45 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. ( 88.9 x 115.6 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Seven men and women on a recreational fishing expedition in a small white sailboat with red piping; the women in dresses and bonnets; the men in coats and ties; one gentleman with a large fish on his line near the side of the boat; other boats visible on the bay in the distance.
Credit Line:
Gift of C. Otto von Kienbusch
Object Number:
1964.21
Marks:
signature and date: signed and dated in circular monogram-stamp on sail of boat at right center: J.B. STEARNS 1871
label: framer's label: D.B. BUTLER & CO., INC. ENGRAVINGS ETCHINGS AND PICTURE FRAMES. PAINTINGS RESTORED 126 EAST 57 ST. N.Y.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1871
eMuseum Object ID:
14617
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
New York Harbor and the Battery, New York City
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1885
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 36 in. ( 55.9 x 91.4 cm )
Framed: 26 3/4 × 41 × 2 3/4 in. (67.9 × 104.1 × 7 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1939.585
Marks:
Signed and dated lower left: Andrew Melrose / 85
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1885
eMuseum Object ID:
14613
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Falstaff Playing King
Classification:
Date:
1836
Medium:
Oil on wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 3/8 x 11 1/4 x 1/2 in. ( 18.7 x 28.6 x 1.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Elinor M. Parker
Object Number:
1959.117
Gallery Label:
The donor is Luman Reed's great-great-granddaughter. Identified as Luman Reed door panel by Timothy A. Burgard, 1991.
Bibliography:
Noble, Louis Legrand, The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, Hensonville, New York: Black Dome Press, 1964, pp. 155-65.
Parry, Elwood, Thomas Cole's "The Course of Empire": A Study in Serial Imagery, PhD Dissertation, Yale, 1970, pp. 70-3.
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. 68, 188-92. 620.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 8-10.
Frankenstein, Alfred, William Sidney Mount, New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975, pp. 69-70.
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. 304-6, 402-4.
Tufts, Eleanor, "Realism Revisited: Goya's Impact on George Bellows and other American Responses to the Spanish Presence in Art," Arts, No. 57, February 1983, PP. 105-13.
Foshay, Ella M., Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: Pioneer Collection of American Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pp. 38-9, 67-9, 205-6.
Burgard, Timothy Anglin, "New Discoveries in American Art," American Art Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1991, pp. 70-4.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1836
eMuseum Object ID:
14611
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Ballston Springs, New York
Classification:
Date:
1838
Medium:
oil on canvas(?).
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 x 8 in. ( 15.2 x 20.3 cm )
Object Number:
1969.30
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1838
eMuseum Object ID:
14551
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Classification:
Date:
1800-1830
Medium:
Paint on glass
Dimensions:
frame: 16 1/4 x 12 5/8 x 1 3/8 in. ( 41.3 x 32.1 x 3.5 cm )
image: 12 7/8 x 9 1/4 in. ( 32.7 x 23.5 cm )
Description:
Bust of Thomas Jefferson in right-facing profile, reverse-painted in black, gray, and deep blue-green in oval window at center of rectangular sheet of glass; elaborate border with incised lattice design painted in black; rectangular wooden frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Object Number:
1927.53
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
14528
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Street View in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Classification:
Date:
1859
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 36 in. ( 61 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-188
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower right: Mignot/ 59
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1859
eMuseum Object ID:
14517
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Battle of Lake Erie
Classification:
Date:
1801-1824
Medium:
Reverse painting on glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. ( 22.2 x 27.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Irving S. Olds
Object Number:
1963.43
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1824
eMuseum Object ID:
14434
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Blondin Crossing Niagra Falls on a Tightrope
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1859-1860
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 46 x 58 3/4 in. ( 116.8 x 149.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, Accessions Sales, Abbott-Lenox, and Foster-Jarvis Funds
Object Number:
1959.107
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
14378
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mary Gaylord Barrow (1868-1870)
Classification:
Date:
1870
Medium:
Oil on opaque glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 9 3/4 in. ( 20.3 x 24.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Archibald Barrow
Object Number:
1954.12
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
14371
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Capture of the U.S. Chesapeake by H. M. S. Shannon
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Reverse painting in oil on glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 x 21 in. ( 38.1 x 53.3 cm )
Object Number:
1943.437
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
14350
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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