Collection Highlights
Life studies of the Great Army
Date:
1876
Object Number:
PR.002.Album383
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The Black Plume
Object Number:
1858.64
Date:
1842
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 29 in. ( 91.4 x 73.7 cm )
Gallery Label:
According to the Society's records, this painting was evidently of a larger size (36 x 29 inches) but was obviously reduced at the time of relining.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1862, p. 7.
Tuckerman, Henry T., "Inman," Book of the Artists, New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1867, p. 621.
Champlin, John Denison, Jr., ed., Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Vol. II, p. 314.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1862, p. 31.
Freedgood, Lillian, An Enduring Image: American Painting from 1665, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1970, p. 96.
Gerdts, William H., Stebbins, Theodore E., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1979, p. 167.
Gerdts, Abigail Booth, "Newly Discovered Records of the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts," Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1981, pp. 2-9.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 217, 219.
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
