James William Beekman, Jr. (1847-1908)
Classification:
Date:
1901
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Beekman Family Association
Object Number:
1954.133
Gallery Label:
Shettle's picture was copied from either Satterlee's or Le Clear's portrait.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1901
eMuseum Object ID:
6457
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Study from Nature: Rocks and Trees in the Catskills, N.Y.
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Classification:
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Not promoted
Date:
1856
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/2 x 17 in. ( 54.6 x 43.2 cm )
Frame: 30 3/4 x 26 x 2 7/8 in. (78.1 x 66 x 7.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Lucy Maria Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1907.20
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 43.
"Asher B. Durand and European Art," The Art Journal, Vol. XXI, Summer 1962, pp. 250, 254.
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. 254, 304-6, 363-4, 645.
The American Landscape, Exhibition Catalogue, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 1973,
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 177.
Novak, Barbara, Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875, New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 238-42, 296-7.
Czestochowski, Joseph S., American Landscape Tradition: A Study and Gallery of Paintings, New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1982, p. 76, fig. 65.
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. 342.
Stillman, William J., Poetic Localities: Photographs of Adirondacks, Cambridge, Crete, Italy, Athens, New York: An Aperture Book in Association with the International Center of Photography, 1988, pp. 92-3, 101-2.
Wagner, Virginia L., "John Ruskin and Artistical Geology in America," Winterthur Portfolio Vol. 23, No. 2/3, Summer-Autumn 1988, pp. 151-167.
Foshay, Ella M., and Novak, Barbara, Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, William Cullen Bryant, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 2000, pp. 29, 34, 37-43, 56.
Bedell, Rebecca, The Anatomy of Nature: Geology & American Landscape Painting, 1835-1875, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001, pp. 58-9, 159, 161.
Vedder, Lee A., "Heeding the Call of Nature: Asher Brown Durand's Communion with the American Landscape," The New-York Journal of American History, New York: New-York Historical Society, Vol. LXV, No. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 34-5, 45.
Leggio, Gail, "Nature's Presence: Asher B. Durand and American Landscape," American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2007, pp. 10-3, 18.
Peck, H. Daniel, "Unlikely Kindred Spirits: A New Vision of Landscape in the Works of Henry David Thoreau and Asher B. Durand," American Literary History, Oxford University Press, Vol. 17, No. 4, November 30, 2005, pp. 699-700.
Novak, Barbara, Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875, Third Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 87-8, 298.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 16-7, 21, 24.
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0
Date End:
1856
eMuseum Object ID:
6397
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Study from Nature, Bronxville, New York
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Classification:
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Not promoted
Date:
1856
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 3/4 x 24 in. ( 42.5 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.34
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, pp. 253, 363-4
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 176.
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. 341.
Harvey, Eleanor Jones, The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature 1830-1880, Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1998, pp. 136-7.
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. 55.
Leggio, Gail, "Nature's Presence: Asher B. Durand and American Landscape," American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2007, pp. 10-1, 16-8.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 179-80, 203.
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0
Date End:
1856
eMuseum Object ID:
6339
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Study from Nature, Peekskill, N.Y.
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Classification:
Date:
1854
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 3/4 x 24 in. ( 42.5 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.33
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, pp. 248-9.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 173-4.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 333.
Harvey, Eleanor Jones, The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature 1830-1880, Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1998, pp. 136-7.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1854
eMuseum Object ID:
6337
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Robert Livingston, Jr. (1708-1790)
Classification:
Date:
1764
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 49 3/4 x 40 in. ( 126.4 x 101.6 cm )
Description:
This portrait was painted at Livingston Manor in 1764.
Credit Line:
Gift of Goodhue Livingston
Object Number:
1950.360
Gallery Label:
Robert was the eldest son of Philip Livingston, the second lord of Livingston Manor, and Catharine (Van Brugh) Livingston; he succeeded his father as third lord of the manor. He was a member of the assembly for the manor from 1737 to 1758.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1764
eMuseum Object ID:
6312
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Christ in the Praetorium
Classification:
Date:
1868
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 52 x 39 in. ( 132.1 x 99.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Samuel S. Osgood
Object Number:
1888.4
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower right: S. S. Osgood 1868.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1868
eMuseum Object ID:
6311
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Evelyn Foster Olds
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 48 x 29 x 1 in. ( 121.9 x 73.7 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1976.44
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
6273
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sailing Steamship
Classification:
Medium:
oil
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 36 x 1 in. ( 61 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1938.422
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
6208
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Colonel Gerardus Beekman, M.D.
Classification:
Date:
1932
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Beekman Family Association
Object Number:
1954.132
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1932
eMuseum Object ID:
6195
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Nelson Eames (1821-1902)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1855-1860
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Wilberforce Eames
Object Number:
1940.332
Gallery Label:
The subject's ancestors were early settlers of Woburn, Massachusetts, and his grandfather was among the first inhabitants of Belfast, Maine. Nelson Eames farmed for a while in Maine and taught school there before moving to Newark, New Jersey, where his son Wilberforce, the donor of this portrait, was born. Nelson Eames moved his family to Brooklyn around 1861 and established there a stationery shop.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
6109
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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