Wayside Shrine
Classification:
Date:
1837
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 1/2 x 27 5/8 x 7/8 in. ( 62.2 x 70.2 x 2.2 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-90
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower left: B. C. Koekkoek fr. 1837.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1837
eMuseum Object ID:
13613
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Girl Opening Oysters
Classification:
Date:
1864
Medium:
oil on panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 11/16 x 6 7/16 x 1/4 in. ( 22.1 x 16.4 x 0.6 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-108
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated mid-left: E. N. Beranger 1864
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1864
eMuseum Object ID:
13103
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Sunset: Souvenir of the Adirondacks
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1878
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Unframed: 25 × 37 in. (63.5 × 94 cm)
Framed: 39 1/4 × 50 1/4 × 6 in. (99.7 × 127.6 × 15.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of the children of the artist, through John Durand
Object Number:
1903.4
Bibliography:
Harpers New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 66, no. 396, May 1883, p. 860-1
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887, p. 34, no. 395.
Huntington, Daniel, Asher B. Durand: A Memorial Address, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887, p. 39.
Durand, John, The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894; Reprint, Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press, 2007), pp. 200-1.
"Pictures by Durand," The New York Times, April 26, 1903, p. 34.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 38.
Tolman, Ruel P., "Asher Brown Durand," Art in America, Vol. 11, No. 4, June 1923, pp. 196-200.
Sears, Clara Endicott, Highlights Among the Hudson River Artists, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947, p. 5-21.
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. 194, 266-7, 381-5, 412-6, 470-1, 568, 664-5, Fig. 143,
A. B. Durand 1796-1886, Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum Catalogue, October 24 - November 28, 1971, p. 29.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 30, xxxix.
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. 362.
Carbone, Teresa A., American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876, Brooklyn Museum, 2006, Vol. I, p. 477.
Novak, Barbara, American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 84-5.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, Chronology.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1878
eMuseum Object ID:
13102
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Image Pedlar
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1844
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall (canvas): 33 1/4 x 42 1/4 in. (84.5 x 107.3 cm)
Frame: 44 x 53 1/2 x 5 in. ( 111.8 x 135.9 x 12.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.71
Bibliography:
"National Academy of Design," New York Herald, Vol. X, No. 147, May 26, 1944, p. 1.
Lanman, Charles, Letters from a Landscape Painter, Boston: J. Munroe and Company, 1845, pp. 238-43.
Mann, Maybelle, "Francis William Edmonds: Mammon and Art," The American Art Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn 1970, pp. 92-106.
Mann, Maybelle, Francis William Edmonds: Mammon and Art, New York University Ph.D. Dissertation, 1972, pp. 64, 94-8.
Mann, Maybelle, "Humor and philosophy in the paintings of Francis William Edmonds," Antiques, November 1974, pp. 862-70.
Mann, Maybelle, Francis William Edmonds: Mammon and Art, New York: Garland Pub., 1977, pp. 94-7.
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. 4-7.
Clarke, H. Nichols B., Francis W. Edmonds, American Master in the Dutch Tradition, Washington, D.C.; Published for Amon Carter Museum by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988, pp. 30, 56-7, 75-9, 92-3.
Foshay, Ella M., Mr. Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: Pioneer Collection of American Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pp. 148-9.
Johns, Elizabeth, American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991, pp. 15, 21, 54-5, 209.
Terhune, Anne Gregory, Thomas Hovenden: His Life and Art, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. 151-81.
Brownlee, Peter John, "Francis Edmonds and the Speculative Economy of Painting," American Art, Vol, 21, No. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 31-53.
Weinberg, H. Barbara, and Barratt, Carrie Rebora, Eds., American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009, pp. 31-2, 72.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1844
eMuseum Object ID:
13101
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Pompeian Fragment of a Wall Painting - Venus and Cupid
Classification:
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Not promoted
Medium:
Fresco
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 23 in. ( 71.1 x 58.4 cm )
Description:
Fragment of a Pompeian wall painting in a ninteenth-century wooden frame.
Object Number:
1861.7
Provenance:
Gift of Richard K. Haight
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
13099
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1625-50
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 28 3/4 in. ( 71.1 x 73 cm )
frame: 39 x 39 3/4 in. ( 99.1 x 101 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.29
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1625
eMuseum Object ID:
13098
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Young Woodchopper
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 23 3/4 in. ( 76.2 x 60.3 cm )
frame: 35 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. ( 90.2 x 74.9 x 3.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.27
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
13097
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Peter Stuyvesant and the Trumpeter (Wrath of Peter Stuyvesant on learning the capture, by treachery, of Fort Casimir)
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Unframed: 24 1/4 × 30 1/4 in. (61.6 × 76.8 cm)
Framed: 33 1/2 in. × 39 5/8 in. × 4 in. (85.1 × 100.6 × 10.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.28
Inscriptions:
Canvas stencil: PREPARED BY / ROBERSON & MILLER / 51 LONG ACRE, LONDON, and R&M 1448
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Bibliography:
Morris, G. P., ed., "The National Academy: Second Notice", The New-York Mirror: A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, Vol. 13, April 2, 1836, p. 318.
The New York Evening Post, April 27, 1836, p. 2.
"National Academy," The NY Herald, May 9, 1836, p.2, col. 1.
"National Academy of Design," The New York Evening Post, May 25, 1836, p. 2.
Morris, G. P., ed., "The National Academy: Second Notice," The New-York Mirror: A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, Vol. 13, June 4, 1836, p. 390.
"Editor's Table," The Knickerbocker, Vol. III, July 1836, pp. 112-5.
Herbert, Henry William, ed., The Magnolia for 1837, New York: Bancroft & Mallory, 1836, p. 254.
"Editor's Table," The Knickerbocker, Vol. XIII, January 1839, frontispiece, p. 83.
Lewis, E. Anna, "Art and Artists of America: Asher Brown Durand," Graham's Magazine, Philadelphia, Vol. XLV, No. 4, October 1854, p. 321.
Tuckerman, Henry T., Book of the Artists, American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America, New York: P. Putnam & Son, 1867, p. 189, 621.
Sheldon, G. W., American Painters: With Eighty-Three Examples of their Work Engraved on Wood, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879, p. 129.
Clement, Clara Erskine, and Hutton, Laurence, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880, Vol. I, p. 227.
"An Aged Artist," The Studio: a Weekly Journal of the Fine Arts, New York, August 1883, p. 62.
Huntington, Daniel, Asher B. Durand: A Memorial Address, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887, p. 26.
Durand, John, The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894; Reprint, Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press, 2007), p. 120-1.
"Pictures by Durand," The New York Times, April 26, 1903, p. 34.
Johnson, Rossiter, ed., The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Brief Biographies of Authors, Administrators, Clergymen, Commanders, Editors, Engineers, Jurists, Merchants, Officials, Philanthropists, Scientists, Statesmen, and Others Who Are Making American History, Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904, Vol. III, n.p.
Isham, Samuel, The History of American Painting, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905, p. 229.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 7.
Neuhaus, Eugen, The History & Ideals of American Art, Stanford University: Stanford University Press, 1931, p. 70.
National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860, New York: New York Historical Society, 1943, Vol. I, p. 135.
Richardson, Edgar P., American Romantic Painting, New York: E. Weyhe, 1944, p. 13, 31.
Richardson, E. P., Painting in America: the Story of 450 Years, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1956, p. 170.
Larkin, Oliver W., Art and Life in America, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960, p. 220.
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. 4, 5, 68, 171-191, 215, 282, 389-90, 618-20, Appendix II, p. 69.
A. B. Durand 1796-1886, Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum Catalogue, October 24 - November 28, 1971, p. 25.
Frankenstein, Alfred Victor, William Sidney Mount, New York: Abrams, 1974, p. 70.
Taylor, Joshua C., America as Art, Washington: Smithsonian Institution press, 1976, p. 77.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 6-7, xiii, xviii, xxii, xxiv-xxxi.
Taylor, Joshua C., The Fine Arts in America, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1979, p. 67.
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. 300-1.
Schweizer, Paul D., "Washington Irving's Friendship with William Edward West and the Impact of his History of New York on John Quidor," The American Art Journal, Vol.17, No. 2, Spring 1985, pp. 73-88.
Foshay, Ella M., Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: Pioneer Collection of American Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pp. 63, 87, 146-7, 209.
Burrows, G. Edwin, and Wallace, Mike, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 472.
Smith, Alvy Ray, compiled by, Dr. John Durand (1664-1727) of Derby Connecticut: His
Family Through Four Generations Featuring the Branch of His Youngest Son Ebenezer Durand Through Ten Generations to 2003, Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2003, p. 218.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Asher B. Durand, American Landscape Painter," Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 77-8, 81, Chronology.
Gallati, Barbara Dayer, "American Genre painting and the Rise of 'Average Taste,'" The Magazine Antiques, November/December, 2011, pp. 134-141.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
13049
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Still Life: The Good Earth
Classification:
Date:
1932
Medium:
Oil on academy board (painted oval)
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 34 1/4 in. ( 68.6 x 87 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of F. Maurice Newton
Object Number:
1948.92
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1932
eMuseum Object ID:
13009
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William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Classification:
Date:
1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. ( 77.5 x 64.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the American Art-Union
Object Number:
1863.5
Marks:
signature and date: bottom center: "Henry Peters Gray 1850"
"scratch" signature: on lower spandrels: "H. P. Gray, March 1850 New York"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
12993
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