William Johnson (1769-1848)
Classification:
Date:
1816
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. ( 78.1 x 65.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Horace Binney, Jr.
Object Number:
1868.1
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of Asahel and Eunice (Wetmore) Johnson of Middletown, Connecticut. He studied law after graduating from Yale and set up his practice in New York in the 1790s. He became a member of The New-York Historical Society in 1805, and served as chairman of its standing committee. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his son-in-law.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Museum and Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1881, p. 59.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1915, p. 25.
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. 65.
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.
Dickson, H.E., "John Wesley Jarvis: Knickerbocker Painter, The New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 2, April 1940, pp. 47-64.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society: Oil Portraits, Miniatures, Sculptures, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1941, p. 162.
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. 232, 332, 355, 427.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 405-6.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1816
eMuseum Object ID:
9087
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Italian Landscape near Rome: Study for "Mountain Stream"
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1847
Medium:
Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 7/8 x 14 1/8 in. (25.1 x 35.9 cm)
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-102
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed and signed at lower center in brown oil: "J.F. Cropsey 1847 / Rome"
Gallery Label:
Our work is a study for the painting at the Arnot Art Museum that Ken Maddox, Cropsey scholar, has recently identified as "Mountain Stream" through study of Cropsey's correspondence.
Provenance:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, New York City, purchased in 1862
Bibliography:
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. 229.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1847
eMuseum Object ID:
9021
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Major General Philip John Schuyler (1733-1804)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1792
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 7/8 x 3 in. ( 9.8 x 7.6 cm )
Frame: 10 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (26 x 24.1 x 5.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Bequest of Philip Schuyler
Object Number:
1915.13
Marks:
inscription: on back: "Philip Schuyler, Esq. / Maj'r Genl. in the American / service--presented at the capture / of Genl. Burgoyne--& Senator of the United States for / the State of N. York. Presented at / the inauguration of the first / President. / Pain
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of Johannes Schuyler, Jr., and Cornelia (Van Cortlandt) Schuyler. In 1775 he was a delegate to the second Continental Congress and helped organize the Continental Army, in which he was appointed a major general. He resigned his commission in 1779, but served as an advisor on currency matters and Indian affairs. Thereafter he held one public office or another in New York State until 1798; he was twice elected to the U.S. Senate.
Bibliography:
A Catalogue with Descriptive Notices of the Portraits, Busts, etc. belonging to Yale University 1892, New Haven: 1892, p. 94
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 46, 65.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 2, 1974, pp. 711-2.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1792
eMuseum Object ID:
8942
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Organ Man, N.Y.C
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1946
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 x 26 1/4 in. ( 45.7 x 66.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, Foster-Jarvis Fund
Object Number:
1976.4
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1946
eMuseum Object ID:
8804
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bocci Players
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1947
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 24 in. ( 40.6 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of William H. Alexander
Object Number:
1957.97
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1947
eMuseum Object ID:
8803
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
West 130th. St. N.Y.C.
Classification:
Date:
1933
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 1/8 x 26 1/4 x 7/8 in. ( 48.6 x 66.7 x 2.2 cm )
Description:
This is a view is facing east on West 130th Street as seen from St. Nicholas Park on St. Nicholas Avenue; in the distance is the 130th Street elevated station on Eighth Avenue.
Credit Line:
Gift of William H. Alexander
Object Number:
1957.96
Marks:
signed: verso: "Arapoff"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1933
eMuseum Object ID:
8801
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John William Draper, M.D. (1811-1882)
Classification:
Date:
1941
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 35 x 24 in. ( 88.9 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1955.71
Gallery Label:
Draper received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836 and later joined the faculty of the University of the City of New York as professor of chemistry and physiology. He participated in the organization of its medical school in 1841, and later became its president. Dr. Draper was very interested in photography and was reportedly the first to make a daguerreotype in New York. This posthumous portrait may have been based on a portrait of Draper by Joseph Fagnani from ca. 1872.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1941
eMuseum Object ID:
8742
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Andrew Jackson
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Reverse painting in oil on glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 1/8 in. ( 31.8 x 24.1 x 0.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.334
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
8508
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape, Moonlight
Classification:
Date:
1658
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 1/8 x 37 1/8 x 3/4 in. ( 63.8 x 94.3 x 1.9 cm )
Object Number:
1858.66
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1658
eMuseum Object ID:
8502
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Harvest Moon
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1860
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 39 in. ( 61 x 99.1 cm )
Frame: 35 3/4 x 50 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (90.8 x 128.3 x 9.5 cm)
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-160
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
8428
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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