View of Hong Kong, China
Classification:
Date:
1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 10 3/4 in. ( 17.8 x 27.3 cm )
Framed: 10 × 13 3/4 × 2 in. (25.4 × 34.9 × 5.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Alice Temple Parkin
Object Number:
1946.80
Gallery Label:
This scene was formerly identified as View of Macao.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
1061
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
View of Palisades, New Jersey
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1870s
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/8 x 12 1/4 in. ( 23.2 x 31.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Rodman Gilder
Object Number:
1948.84
Gallery Label:
According to the donor, this scene was painted during the 1870's.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
1059
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Uriah Hendricks (1809-1881)
Classification:
Date:
1878
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Ethel H. Frank
Object Number:
1973.26
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "J. H. Lazarus / 1878"
Gallery Label:
The subject, née Fanny Tobias, was married to Uriah Hendricks (1802-1869).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1878
eMuseum Object ID:
1058
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
McComb's Dam Bridge, Harlem River, N.Y.
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 26 in. ( 40.6 x 66 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Horace Figuers
Object Number:
1973.23
Marks:
Signature: Lower Left: "FRANK HOUGHTON"
Gallery Label:
This oil painting is a study, in reverse, of a Currier and Ives lithograph entitled View on the Harlem River, N.Y. The painting was purchased by a member of the donor's family at an auction sale in 1871 and hung in the family home in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn until presented to the Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
1057
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Emma Cecilia Thursby (1845-1931)
Classification:
Date:
1879
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Frame: 93 x 64 in. ( 236.2 x 162.6 cm )
Framed: 93 × 64 × 5 1/2 in. (236.2 × 162.6 × 14 cm)
Unframed: 68 × 43 in
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Ina Love Thursby
Object Number:
1944.17
Marks:
Signed and dated upper left: "G. P. A. Healy, Pinxit / Paris, May 1879"
Gallery Label:
Emma Thursby, a native of Brooklyn, was one of the first American singers to achieve renown in Europe. A soprano, she studied voice in New York with Julius Meyer and sang regularly as a soloist with the choir of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. After further study in Italy, she had her debut as a concert artist in New York in 1875. She toured widely from the late 1870s into the early years of the twentieth century.
Bibliography:
Smith, Jewel A., Music, Women, and Pianos in Antebellum Bethlehem, Pannsylvania: The Moravian Young Ladies Seminary, Bethlehem: Hehigh University Press, 2008, p. 136.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1879
eMuseum Object ID:
1056
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Haying Scene
Classification:
Date:
1836
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 3/8 x 11 3/8 x 1/2 in. (61.9 x 28.9 x 1.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Andrew Chalmers Wilson, great-grandaughter of Luman Reed
Object Number:
1963.9
Gallery Label:
"Haying Scene" is one of a series of door panels that the New York art collector Luman Reed (1785-1836) commissioned to enhance the overall appearance of the art gallery in his Manhattan townhouse. As was fashionable among other elite American collectors, the floor plan of Reed's gallery was a double parlor. Two small doors opened into each of the two rooms, and two larger doors divided the double parlor, all of which had recessed panels. With the passion of a true collector, Reed was not one to waste valuable space for displaying works of art and decided to fill the door recesses with original paintings. Calling on Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, George Whiting Flagg, and William Sidney Mount to contribute to the scheme, Reed commissioned panels of simple genre subjects, which were to be executed in a free and uncomposed manner. Fourteen of the original panel paintings survive, four of which are by Cole and the rest attributed to Durand. The New-York Historical Society holds seven of the surviving panels attributed to Durand, including this one, which would have been mounted on one of the smaller doors leading into each room of the art gallery. The other seven panels are dispersed among private collections and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.
Bibliography:
Noble, Louis Legrand, The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, Hensonville, New York: Black Dome Press, 1964, pp. 155-65.
Parry, Elwood, Thomas Cole's "The Course of Empire": A Study in Serial Imagery, PhD Dissertation, Yale, 1970, pp. 70-3.
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. 68, 188-92. 620.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 8-10.
Frankenstein, Alfred, William Sidney Mount, New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975, pp. 69-70.
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. 304-6, 402-4.
Tufts, Eleanor, "Realism Revisited: Goya's Impact on George Bellows and other American Responses to the Spanish Presence in Art," Arts, No. 57, February 1983, PP. 105-13.
Foshay, Ella M., Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: Pioneer Collection of American Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pp. 38-9, 67-9, 205-6.
Burgard, Timothy Anglin, "New Discoveries in American Art," American Art Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1991, pp. 70-4.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1836
eMuseum Object ID:
1054
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Juliet Paradise (b. 1806)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1831
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. ( 64.8 x 54.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Thomas F. Paradise
Object Number:
1970.60
Gallery Label:
Juliet Paradise was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Stout) Paradise. She married Dr. John H. Wheeler (d. 1889) of Athens, New York, on May 19, 1831.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1831
eMuseum Object ID:
1053
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cupid and Psyche
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 47 x 38 x 1 in. ( 119.4 x 96.5 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1921.7
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
1052
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Charles Wardell
Classification:
Medium:
oil on panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 x 26 x 1 in. ( 83.8 x 66 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1975.32
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
1046
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Augustus Jay (1670-after 1747)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1710
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 38 x 29 in. ( 96.5 x 73.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Edward F. De Lancey
Object Number:
1896.3
Gallery Label:
Anna Maricka Bayard, named after her grandmother Anna Maricka Stuyvesant, was the daughter of Balthazar Bayard and Maria (Loockermans) Bayard of New York. She was married to Augustus Jay at the Reformed Dutch Church on October 27, 1697.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1710
eMuseum Object ID:
1041
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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