Collection Highlights
Dragonfly table lamp
Date:
ca. 1900-1906
Object Number:
N84.113.1
Medium:
Glass, bronze
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Palette
Object Number:
1941.1219
Date:
1900-1940
Medium:
Mahogany
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 5/8 x 15 3/8 x 1/8 in. ( 57.5 x 39.1 x 0.3 cm )
Description:
Artist's palette made of mahogany; elliptical shape with oval thumb hole; clean (unused) surface.
Gallery Label:
John Ward Dunsmore (1856-1945) was one of America's leading painters of murals and historical subjects in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The N-YHS owns over fifty of his works. According to note attached to the original accession record, this palette is also linked to Asher B. Durand (1796-1886).
Credit Line:
Gift of John Ward Dunsmore
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
