Sunset, New York
Classification:
Date:
1900
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 36 in. ( 55.9 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Alfred V. de Forest, Lockwood de Forest, and Mrs. Judith de Forest Soule
Object Number:
1935.91
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
503
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Packet Ship "Hibernia"
Classification:
Date:
1845
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 36 in. ( 61 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1936.662
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
502
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Merchant Ship "Robert L. Lane"
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 1/8 x 36 in. ( 61.3 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1936.663
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
501
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamship "Wyanoke"
Classification:
Date:
1896
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 36 in. ( 55.9 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1936.806
Marks:
Signature and date: lower right: "ANTONIO JACOBSEN N. Y. 1896"
Gallery Label:
Built in 1870 at Wilmington, Delaware, the Wyanoke was a passenger ship of the Old Dominion Line in service between New York and Norfolk, Virginia.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1896
eMuseum Object ID:
500
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. William Faulkner
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 x 22 in. ( 73.7 x 55.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Gerard F. Shepard
Object Number:
1937.135
Gallery Label:
Sarah Ann Drake was the daughter of Joshua and Joan (Nelson) Drake and the wife of William Faulkner of New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
495
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Primeval Forest
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1854
Medium:
Oil on pre-primed canvas, with butt end stretcher
Dimensions:
Canvas: 58 x 48 in. ( 147.3 x 121.9 cm )
Framed: 3 x 64 1/2 x 54 3/4 in. (7.6 x 163.8 x 139.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Lucy Maria Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1907.18
Marks:
Canvas stencil: PREPARED / BY/ EDWD DECHAUX / NEW-YORK; stretcher stencil: 366
Gallery Label:
Other Primeval Forest compositions of 1854 and 1869 by Durand, which differ from the NYHS version, are owned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts. Durand painted a Primeval Forest in 1854 for Edward D. Nelson which was displayed at the National Academy that year and is now unlocated.
Provenance:
The artist and his family.
Bibliography:
The Home Journal: For the Cultivation of the Memorable, the Progressive, and the Beautiful, No. 425 for the Week Ending April 1, 1854, p. 2, col. 3-4.
The Albion, April 15, 1854, Vol. 13, No. 15, p. 17.
"The Fine Arts," New-York Daily Tribune, Vol. XIV, No. 4,060, April 22, 1854, p. 2.
Lewis, E. Anna, "Art and Artists of America: Asher Brown Durand," Graham's Magazine, Philadelphia, Vol. XLV, No. 4, October 1854, p. 321.
Tuckerman, Henry T., Book of the Artists, American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America, New York: P. Putnam & Son, 1867, p. 189.
Sheldon, G. W., American Painters: With Eighty-Three Examples of their Work Engraved on Wood, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879, p. 129-30.
Clement, Clara Erskine, and Hutton, Laurence, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880, Vol. I, p. 227.
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887.
Huntington, Daniel, Asher B. Durand: A Memorial Address, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887, p. 33-4.
Durand, John, The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894; Reprint, Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press, 2007), p. 175.
Johnson, Rossiter, ed., The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Brief Biographies of Authors, Administrators, Clergymen, Commanders, Editors, Engineers, Jurists, Merchants, Officials, Philanthropists, Scientists, Statesmen, and Others Who Are Making American History, Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904, Vol. III n.p.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 42.
"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. 161-3, 367-70, 478-81, 664, 681-4.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 101.
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. 336.
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.
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, p. 217.
Leggio, Gail, "Nature's Presence: Asher B. Durand and American Landscape," American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2007, pp. 10-1, 14-5, 18.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 181-4, 203, 218, Chronology.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1854
eMuseum Object ID:
494
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William Leete Stone, Sr. (1792-1844)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1847
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/2 x 25 in. ( 77.5 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John B. Hall
Object Number:
1866.1
Gallery Label:
The subject was born in New Paltz, New York, the son of the Rev. William and Tamson (Graves) Stone. From 1821 to 1844 he was one of the owners of the New York "Commercial Advertiser," and used that position to advance several causes in which he took a special interest, among them the Federalist party, the Erie Canal, and congressional emancipation of slaves. He also wrote historical novels and stories and several biographies. He was a member of the N-YHS executive committee in 1823-24 and 1843.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1847
eMuseum Object ID:
490
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The Confessional
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1845-1850
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 35 x 28 in. ( 88.9 x 71.1 cm )
frame: 42 x 35 x 3 in. (42 x 35 x 3 in.)
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number:
1867.287
Bibliography:
White, Richard Grant, Companion to the Bryan Gallery of Christian Art, New York: Baker, Godwin & Co., 1853, p. 125.
Pennington, Estill Curtis, William Edward West 1788-1857: Kentucky Painter, Washington: National Portrait Gallery, 1985, pp. 128-9.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 265.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
486
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Leda and the Swan
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on artboard, mounted on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/4 x 19 in. ( 28.6 x 48.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Edna Morse
Object Number:
1952.2
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
484
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1818
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )
frame: 35 1/2 x 30 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. ( 90.2 x 76.8 x 8.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Marshall S. Bidwell
Object Number:
1871.1
Gallery Label:
Spencer was born in Salisbury, Conn., the son of Philip and Abigail (Moore) Spencer. He graduated from Harvard in 1783 and was admitted to the bar in 1788. Settling in Hudson, N.Y., he entered politics and served in the state legislature from 1793 to 1802. In 1802 he became attorney general for the state and two years later began a nineteen year tenure on the state Supreme Court; he was named chief justice in 1819. He later served as mayor of Albany (1824-25) and was elected to Congress (1829).
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Museum and Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1881, p. 60.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1915, p. 26.
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. 69.
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. 268.
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. 209, 332, 365, 439.
Roper, Donald M., "Justice Smith Thompson," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 2, April 1967, pp. 119-40.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, p. 748.
Zygmont, Bryan J., Portraiture and Politics in New York City, 1790-1825, Ph.D. Diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2006, pp. 215, 231.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1818
eMuseum Object ID:
478
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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