George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
Classification:
Date:
1862
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 21 3/4 in. ( 68.6 x 55.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Object Number:
1928.4
Marks:
signature and date: on back: "Portrait of Geo. P. Morris C. C. Ingham pinx. 1862"
Gallery Label:
Morris, a journalist and poet, was born in Philadelphia and came to New York at an early age. He was founder and editor of "The New York Mirror, and Ladies' Literary Gazette," editor of the daily "Evening Mirror," and founder and editor of "The Home Journal." His most famous poem was "Woodman, Spare that Tree."
Bibliography:
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, Vol. 1. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941, p. 216.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, no. 1768, Vol. 1, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, pp. 552-3.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1862
eMuseum Object ID:
596
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamboat "Rikers Island"
Classification:
Date:
1912
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 36 in. ( 50.8 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Object Number:
1928.73
Marks:
Signature and date: lower right: "ANTONIO JACOBSEN 1912 / 31 PALISADE AV. WEST HOBOKEN N. J."
Gallery Label:
This steamboat was built in 1910 for the city of New York. On the reverse side is a sketch of a ship.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1912
eMuseum Object ID:
595
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Boy of the Agate Family
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835-1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 46 3/4 x 35 7/8 in. ( 118.7 x 91.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Ossining Historical Society
Object Number:
1959.60
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
594
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Henry Hobart Haws (1809-58)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850-1855
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. ( 40 x 32.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Ella L. Smith
Object Number:
1930.8
Gallery Label:
After graduating from Columbia College in 1827, Haws studied law and was admitted to the New York bar. He became interested in New York politics, and served as a Whig in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1851 to 1853. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
592
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Camouflage in 1917
Classification:
Date:
1917
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 18 in. ( 61 x 45.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles Vezin
Object Number:
1930.9
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1917
eMuseum Object ID:
591
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paddle Steamer United States
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1840-1860
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 1/8 x 21 in. ( 43.5 x 53.3 cm )
Description:
Credit Line:
Gift of William Gedney Beatty
Object Number:
1931.6
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
590
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape with Beech Tree
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1845
Medium:
Oil on pre-primed canvas, with 4-member stretcher (mortise and tenon miter front, butt reverse)
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. ( 38.7 x 54 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.16
Marks:
Canvas stencil: PREPARED / BY / THEO. KELLEY / 'R'EAR 351/2 WOOSTER S[T] / NEW YORK. Theodore Kelley, artists' materials, was listed in the New York City directories at 35 1/2 Wooster Street from 1844 to 1853.
On stretcher, in pencil: LANDSCAPE.
Gallery Label:
This study was used for composing Landscape Composition: The Beeches of 1845, owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Provenance:
The artist and his family.
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.243, 338-40, 354.
A. B. Durand 1796-1886, Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum Catalogue, October 24 - November 28, 1971, pp. 56, 88.
Caldwell, John S., Asher B. Durand's Travels in Europe, 1840-1841 and their Role in his Artistic Development, Submitted to Hunter College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, 1973, pp. 19-21.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 171.
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. 322-3.
Caldwell, John and Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. I, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 423-4.
Harvey, Eleanor Jones, The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature 1830-1880, Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1998, pp. 35-6, 45.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 147-8, 201-2.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
588
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Moses Gambault
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 31 x 27 x 1 in. ( 78.7 x 68.6 x 2.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1975.11
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
586
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Thomas Ruggles Gold (1764-1827)
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 31 x 25 x 1 in. ( 78.7 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Anne Hull
Object Number:
1979.62
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
584
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
De Voor Farmhouse, NYC
Classification:
Date:
1902
Medium:
Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. ( 29.2 x 44.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1916.31
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1902
eMuseum Object ID:
585
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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