Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire
Date:
1835-1836
Object Number:
1858.3
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: Joseph Barlow (FW-73), with Carving Unfurled, and a Landscape Vignette of Little Falls on the Mohawk River, New York
Object Number:
1907.36.67
Date:
1892; 1894
Medium:
Watercolor, brown ink and gray wash, gouache, graphite, and copper metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 3/16 x 14 7/8 in. ( 31 x 37.8 cm )
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left below powder horn in brown ink: "Rufus A Grider of Canajoharie N.Y. Mar 1892."; inscribed and signed at lower right above landscape vignette: "JOSEPH BARLOW. / ...RA Grider", with a brief history of the horn; inscribed and signed inside landscape vignette
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
