Collection Highlights
Important meeting of the African Civilization Society, at the Cooper Institute, Wednesday evening, March 7th, 1860, at eight o'clock
Date:
1860
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1860.48
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Samuel Verplanck Hoffman (1866-1942)
Object Number:
1911.2
Date:
1910
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 51 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. ( 131.4 x 92.1 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "R. Schmidt 1910"
Gallery Label:
The subject was one of the nine children of the Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman and Mary Crooke (Elmendorf) Hoffman of New Brunswick, N.J. He studied astronomy at Johns Hopkins University and taught that subject there for a few years, until management of his father's extensive properties in New York demanded his full attention. In 1901 he became a life member of N-YHS and two years later succeeded his father as its president, serving 1903-1912.
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
