John Watts de Peyster (1821-1907)
Classification:
Date:
1909
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 48 x 34 in. ( 121.9 x 86.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Howard Townsend Martin
Object Number:
1909.7
Marks:
signature: lower right: "E. S. Jacquin"
Gallery Label:
John Watts De Peyster was the son of Frederic De Peyster from whom he inherited large tracts of land in New York City. He joined the New York militia in 1845 and eventually rose to the rank of brigadier general, was active in the organization of the New York City police and fire departments and authored several books, including "Personal and Military History of Philip Kearny" (1869) and "Napoleone di Buonaparte" (1896). This portrait was a gift to the Society from his granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1909
eMuseum Object ID:
41310
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John B. De Peyster (1765-1849)
Classification:
Date:
1798
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 1/2 x 25 in. ( 74.9 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Emily M. De Peyster
Object Number:
1918.5
Gallery Label:
John B. De Peyster was the twin brother of Elizabeth De Peyster, the second wife of Charles Willson Peale, and son of William De Peyster, Jr., and Elizabeth (Brasher) De Peyster. John B. De Peyster advanced Peale money to buy his first fossilized mastodon for the Peale Museum in 1801.
Bibliography:
Sellers, Charles Coleman, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 42, Part I, Philadelphia: 1952, pp. 66, 270.
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. The De Peyster Geneaology. Boston: Privately Printed, 1956, p. 76-7, fig. 21
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. American Colonial Painting, materials for a history. Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959, pp. 47-58, II-IV.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p 208.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1798
eMuseum Object ID:
41308
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William Alexander (1726-1783)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1750
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Livingston Cromwell (Cornelia T. Livingston)
Object Number:
1961.36
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
41307
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Yacht "America"
Classification:
Date:
1851
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. ( 56.2 x 76.5 cm )
Framed: 26 3/4 × 35 × 2 5/8 in. (67.9 × 88.9 × 6.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Henry O. Havemeyer
Object Number:
1949.47
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1851
eMuseum Object ID:
41306
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Waterscape with unidentified Steamboat (paddle-wheeler)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1820-1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas mounted on artists' board
Dimensions:
Framed: 8 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (20.6 × 25.7 cm)
Unframed: 5 7/8 × 8 in. (14.9 × 20.3 cm)
Description:
Waterscape of a river flanked with hills, with an unidentified steamboat (paddle-wheeler).
Credit Line:
Bequest of Harriet Ross LeBoeuf
Object Number:
2000.30
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
41302
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Woman with Hat Box on Street
Classification:
Date:
1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas(relined)
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. ( 36.8 x 29.2 cm )
Description:
Portrait depicting older woman against a city backdrop; figure attired in shawl, bonnet, checkered skirt, and apron; she holds a hat box in her hand, and seems as if she is looking for an address or for someone.
Credit Line:
Gift of The Pintard Fellows
Object Number:
1973.38
Marks:
inscription:
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
41295
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Capture of H.M.S. Macedonian by the U.S. Frigate United States
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1813
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:
Canvas: 34 3/8 x 45 1/2 x 7/8 in. ( 87.3 x 115.6 x 2.2 cm )
Frame: 39 3/4 x 51 x 2 3/4 in. (101 x 129.5 x 7 cm)
Description:
Marine view of the capture of the British frigate, Macedonian, by the U.S. frigate, United States.
Credit Line:
Gift of Naval History Society Collection
Object Number:
1925.112
Gallery Label:
This painting depicts the capture of the British frigate Macedonian, 38 guns, Captain John S. Carden, by the American frigate United States, 44 guns, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779-1820). The 90 minute action between the two vessels took place in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles west of the Canary Islands on October 25, 1812. The Macedonian was the first British frigate captured in the War of 1812 that was taken to the United States. She was transported to Newport, Rhode Island, early in December 1812 and few weeks later was moved to New York. Another oil by Birch of the two ships engaged in battle, similar to this one but with the ships spaced further apart, was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1848, and in 1966 was in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Welles Henderson. A third version is at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1813
eMuseum Object ID:
41292
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Donner Lake From the Summit
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1873
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Canvas: 72 1/8 x 120 3/16 in. ( 183.2 x 305.3 cm )
Frame: 80 3/8 x 128 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. ( 204.2 x 325.8 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Landscape which depicts the summit at which the Central Railroad reaches its highest passage over the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California; Donner Lake is below the mountain range.
Credit Line:
Gift of Archer Milton Huntington
Object Number:
1909.16
Marks:
signed: at lower left: "A. Bierstadt"
Gallery Label:
This painting was commissioned by Collis P. Huntington, the railroad king. The scene was taken from a study made by Bierstadt on his trip to the West between the years 1871 to 1873. The painting is also titled "View of Donner Lake,California."
Bibliography:
Walther, Susan Danly, Guest Curator, The Railroad in the American Landscape: 1850-1950, Wellesley, MA: The Wellesley College Museum, April 15-June 8, 1981, p. 49.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 43, 45.
Anderson, Nancy K., Ferber, Linda S., Albert Bierstadt: Art & Exchange," New York: The Brooklyn Museum, in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1990, pp. 37-8, 58-9, 95-8, 220, 226-7.
Belli, Gabriella, Giocomoni, Paula, Cavina, Anna Ottani, Montagna: Arte, scienza, mito da Durer a Warhol, Milan, Italy: Skira, 2003, p. 358.
Murphy, Kevin Michael, Economics of Style: The Business Practices of American Artists and the Structure of the Market, 1850-1910, PhD Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 2005, pp. 153-4, 163-5, 172, 201, 204-5, 207.
Bugard, Timothy Anglin, General Editor, Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young, San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2005, pp. 121-4
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1873
eMuseum Object ID:
41291
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Indian Encampment, Shoshone Village
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1860
Medium:
Oil on millboard
Dimensions:
Framed: 38 in. × 33 5/8 in. × 4 1/4 in. (96.5 × 85.4 × 10.8 cm)
Unframed: 24 × 19 3/4 in. (61 × 50.2 cm)
Description:
Landscape which depicts a clearing in the woods that reveals a small Shoshone village; two tepees in foreground: one with a male Native American and a dog, the other with two Native American females and a dog; in the background, there is a male Native American on horseback; a woman carrying what appears to be a papoose on her back; several horses grazing; a dog near the river.
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-52
Marks:
Inscription: on verso: "Shosone Village, among the Cottonwood/Trees on the Sweetwater River, Wind-River Mountains/ in the distance."
Signature and date: at lower right: "ABierstadt 1860"
Label: @ reverse: 'Prepared Mill-board./Winsor & Newton/Artists Co
Gallery Label:
This work was painted from a study done in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming during Bierstadt's first Western journey in 1859.
Bibliography:
"Early American Landscape and Genre Painters Seen to Advantage in the Picture Galleries of the Public Library," The New York Times, August 27, 1911, Magazine, p. SM15.
Hendricks, Gordon, "The First Three Western Journeys of Albert Bierstadt," The Art Bulletin, 46, Sept. 1964, pp. 333-65.
Hendricks, Gordon, Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1974, n.p.
Baigell, Matthew, Albert Bierstadt, New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981, pp. 32.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 43, 45.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
41290
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St. Paul's Chapel with Woolworth Building
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1940
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 30 1/8 x 7/8 in. ( 91.4 x 76.5 x 2.2 cm )
Description:
Cityscape including St. Paul's Chapel and the Woolworth building; replica of the Washington monument, flagpole with American flag, and several graves and tombstones are located at the side of the chapel; a small building with a billboard for "Newsweek" newspaper stands between the chapel and the Woolworth building; pedestrians stand and walk in the foreground; there is a subway station to the left; cars in the foreground and background and clouds in the sky.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration
Object Number:
1940.972
Marks:
signed and dated: lower left: "Saul Berman, 1940"
Gallery Label:
This painting was executed under the Works Project Administration, a government organization that provided employment for artists during the Depression. St. Paul's Chapel was the only intact pre-Revolutionary public building in New York at the time of this painting. It is silhouetted dramatically against several 20th century buildings, among them the Woolworth building (1913).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
41289
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