Shandaken, Ulster County, New York
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1854
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 x 16 3/4 in. ( 53.3 x 42.5 cm )
frame: 29 1/2 x 25 x 3 in. (74.9 x 63.5 x 7.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.17
Marks:
Dated, lower right: 1854
Inscriptions:
Canvas stencil: PREPARED / BY / EDWD DECHAUX / NEW-YORK, Edward Dechaus, artists' materials, was listed at 709 Broadway in New York City directories from 1853 to 1864.
Sale stamp: on reverse of canvas: DURAND / SALE / 1887. Durand Salte (Ortgies), 1887, no. 320, Shandanken, Ulster Co., N.Y. (16 x 20 3/4 inches [face size[). The auction number "320," in chalk, is on the stretcher.
Gallery Label:
This impressive foreground tree study was made near Kingston with a distant view of the Shandaken Mountains in the Catskill range. A decade before, Durand had written of his stay in the area: "...the weather is so favorable, that if I had my family with me, I should gladly stay as long as the season continues, for I am too fond of this kind of hard-work-play to be in haste [to] shut myself up in the city."
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. 21, no. 308
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, p. 249.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 182.
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. 334.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Asher B. Durand, American Landscape Painter", Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 174-5, 181, 203.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1854
eMuseum Object ID:
14172
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Schooner "Lewis R. Mackey"
Classification:
Date:
1854
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 1/4 x 52 1/8 x 1 in. ( 84.5 x 132.4 x 2.5 cm )
Framed: 45 × 64 × 3 3/4 in. (114.3 × 162.6 × 9.5 cm)
Description:
Depicted is the schooner the "Lewis R. Mackey" in full mast with an American flag and a banner that reads "Lewis R. Mackey"; several schooners in the background; porpoises (or dolphins) and a man rowing in a boat in the foreground; land in the distance; clouds in the sky.
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1947.66
Marks:
Signed and dated lower right: Drawn and Painted by James Bard 162 Perry St NY. / March The 1st 1854
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1854
eMuseum Object ID:
14117
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape
Classification:
Date:
1888
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/2 x 15 7/8 x 3/4 in. ( 54.6 x 40.3 x 1.9 cm )
Object Number:
X.734
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1888
eMuseum Object ID:
14109
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Winter Snowstorm, Madison Square, NY
Classification:
Medium:
Oil on artboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 x 18 x 1 in. ( 35.6 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1981.9
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
14108
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
From the Back Window, NYC
Classification:
Date:
1921
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 18 in. ( 40.6 x 45.7 cm )
Frame: 19 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (50.2 x 55.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Howard Thain
Object Number:
1970.45
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1921
eMuseum Object ID:
14107
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Mohawk Bridge, Schenectady, N.Y.
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. ( 11.7 x 24.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, Accessions Sales Fund
Object Number:
1949.307
Gallery Label:
This illustration, the oldest in existence of the bridge, hung in the Mabie house at Rotterdam on the Mohawk was presented to Mrs. Daniel L. Wetzel by Annie Montgomery Johnson, a descendant of the Mabie family.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
14083
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Jedediah Vincent Huntington (1815-1862)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 1/2 in. ( 76.2 x 62.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles R. Huntington
Object Number:
1911.3
Gallery Label:
A native of New York, Jedediah Huntington was the son of Benjamin and Faith (Hungtington) Huntington and brother of the artist. He distinguished himself as a clergyman, editor, and novelist. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his nephew.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 376-7.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
13915
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Chryseis returned to her father Chryses
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1771
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 74 x 56 in. ( 188 x 142.2 cm )
frame: 79 1/2 x 61 x 2 3/4 in. ( 201.9 x 154.9 x 7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. William Henry Webb
Object Number:
1865.1
Gallery Label:
The subject of the painting is from Book I of Homer's Illiad, depicting the reunion of the young Trojan woman, Chryseis, with her father, Chryses, following her capture by Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Achaean army, as a spoil of war. In securing his daughter's release, Chryses, a priest of Apollo, implored the god (represented by the statue at the upper left) to help him obtain her release. To that end, Apollo afflicted the Greeks with a plague and forced them to set her free. The painting is a companion piece to "Aeneas and Creusa," also in the Society's collection (Accession No. 1865.2). True to the academic standards of his day, West believed that noble historical subjects drawn from classical antiquity exemplified timeless virtues to be admired and emulated. Dubbed the "American Raphael," West settled permanently in England in 1763 intent on succeeding as a grand-manner history painter and his London studio became a Mecca for American artists studying abroad. A founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768, he became president in 1792 and enjoyed royal patronage as History Painter to George III.
Bibliography:
Morgan, John Hill, Early American Painters, New York: New-York Historical Society, 1921, pp. 63-7.
Kraemer, Ruth S., Drawings by Benjamin West and his son Raphael Lamar West, New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, pp. 12-4.
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. 259-63.
Erffa, Helmut von, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986, pp. 173, 246-7.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1771
eMuseum Object ID:
13883
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Escape of H.M.S. Belvidera from the U.S. Frigate President
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 22 in. ( 40.6 x 55.9 cm )
Framed: 18 3/4 × 24 × 2 1/8 in. (47.6 × 61 × 5.4 cm)
Description:
Marine view of the first naval action of the War of 1812; U.S. Frigate President pictured at right, exchanging cannon fire with the Belvidera; other ships of the pursuing American squadron are in the distance.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Irving S. Olds
Object Number:
1963.58
Marks:
signed: lower left: "T. Buttersworth."
Gallery Label:
This painting was purchased by the donor from the Old Print Shop, New York City, in 1959.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
13668
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bird Shoot of the Düsseldorf Artists at the Grafenberg
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1844
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 31 7/8 x 41 1/4 in. ( 81 x 104.8 cm )
Framed: 44 5/8 in. × 54 in. × 3 in. (113.3 × 137.2 × 7.6 cm)
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-92
Marks:
inscriptions: "Boser 1844" on basket at lower left
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1844
eMuseum Object ID:
13635
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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