Indian Fighting a Bear
Classification:
Medium:
Graphite and gouache on wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. ( 26.7 x 21 cm )
Object Number:
1959.11
Provenance:
Gift of Mr. Harry G. Friedman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
11256
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Patrick Galbraith
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835-1845
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. ( 76.8 x 64.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Gerard Stern
Object Number:
1958.25
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
11245
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape with Ducks
Classification:
Date:
1885
Medium:
Oil on academy board
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/8 x 16 in. ( 53.7 x 40.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Marshall Forbes Kiddle
Object Number:
1951.375
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1885
eMuseum Object ID:
11180
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Thomas Abthorpe Cooper (1776-1849)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1805
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 20 in. ( 61 x 50.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Herman E. Cooper
Object Number:
1960.1
Gallery Label:
Cooper had already established his reputation as a Shakespearean actor when he came to America from England in 1796. He is represented in this portrait as Hamlet, in which role he distinguished himself at the Park Street Theatre in New York.
Provenance:
Cooper, Herman E.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1805
eMuseum Object ID:
11174
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Frederick Mead (1822-1897)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1847-1848
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 27 in. ( 86.4 x 68.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Edwin A. Abbey
Object Number:
1929.26
Gallery Label:
Mary Eliza Scribner was the daughter of Samuel Scribner of Philadelphia. She married Frederick Mead on April 20, 1842. Her portrait was gift to the Society from her daughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1848
eMuseum Object ID:
11060
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Wind Mill
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1858
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 20 1/8 in. ( 61 x 51.1 cm )
frame: 32 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (82.6 x 72.4 x 11.4 cm)
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-217
Gallery Label:
This painting along with Pan of Milk and the Bargaining was on exhibition at the National Academy of Art.
Bibliography:
Harper's Weekly, May 8, 1858, p. 291.
New York Evening Post, May 8, 1858, p. 1.
"Fine Arts," The Albion, Vol. 36, No. 19, May 8, 1858, p. 22.
The Crayon, June 1858, p. 177.
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. 151-2.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 8, 10.
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. 126-9.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
11054
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Asher B. Durand (d. 1830)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1825
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 20 in. ( 61 x 50.8 cm )
frame: 29 x 25 1/8 x 2 3/4 in. ( 73.7 x 63.8 x 7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1918.20
Marks:
stencil on stretcher: "518"
Inscriptions:
on back: "Lucy Baldwin Durand"
Gallery Label:
Lucy Baldwin, daughter of Isaac Baldwin of Bloomfield, N.J., was the first wife of Asher B. Durand. The couple were married in 1821. This portrait of Mrs. Durand may have been painted as a companion piece to Eliab Metcalf's portrait of A. B. Durand, as both canvases are oval and they are almost identical in size.
Bibliography:
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. 86.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 235.
Foshay, Ella M., and Novak, Barbara, Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, William Cullen Bryant, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 2000, p. 53.
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, pp. 214, 217.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, p. 56, Chronology.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
11020
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tugboat
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 35 x 1 in. ( 61 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1945.152
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
10974
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 31 x 1 in. ( 50.8 x 78.7 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1921.8
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
10972
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Andrew McGown II (1800-1890)
Classification:
Date:
1874
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Henry P. McGown
Object Number:
1918.17
Marks:
signature and date: at left: "J. H. Wright 1874"
Gallery Label:
Eliza Ann S. Ferris was the only daughter of Benjamin Ferris (1771-1832), a prominent lawyer, and his first wife, Ann (Post) Ferris, of New York. She married Andrew McGown II on October 25, 1817. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her grandson.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1874
eMuseum Object ID:
10889
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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