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Portrait of William Walton

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Description: Portrait of William Walton
TitlePortrait of William Walton
Creator nameBeckwith, James Carroll
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1886
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions47 7/8 x 28 3/8 in.
LocationCentury Association, New York
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsArt, American--19th centurySmoking in artArtists--Portraits
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1. Finding the “Real” American Artist
Sarah Burns
Description: Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
If we were to construct a composite image of the late-nineteenth-century American artist, this generically white, male, Anglo-Saxon figure would be highly individualistic, possessed of a powerful personality, spiritual, sensitive, close to nature, self-absorbed, reclusive, marginal, childlike and primitive, yet simultaneously materialistic, sociable and socially adept, gentlemanly, civic-minded, worldly, urbane, businesslike, and fully integrated into every aspect of modern life. As individuals, …
Author
Sarah Burns
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1996 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.19-45
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00068.004
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14778&redirecttoanchor=13471
Chapter subject tags:Art, ModernArt, American--19th CenturyArtists--Social conditionsArtists--PortraitsPhysiognomy

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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1884
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions97 13/16 x 55 3/8 in.
LocationMuseum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
http://collection.cmoa.org/CollectionDetail.aspx?item=1035891
Accession number96.2
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Description: Self-Portrait
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Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 30
Creator nameWeir, Julian Alden
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1886
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions21 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.
LocationNational Academy of Design, New York
Self-Portrait
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Description: Mr. Eliot Gregory
Mr. Eliot Gregory
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 30
Creator rolePhotographer
Object typePhotograph
LocationPhotograph from W. A. Cooper, "Artists in Their Studios, X—Eliot Gregory," Godey's Magazine 132 (January–June 1896)
Mr. Eliot Gregory
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Description: End of the Portage
End of the Portage
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 30
Creator nameHomer, Winslow
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1897
Object typePainting
MaterialsWatercolor on paper
Dimensions14 x 21 in.
LocationBrooklyn Museum
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2846
Accession number78.151.1
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Description: Albert Pinkham Ryder
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nameBoughton, Alice
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
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Creator nameChase, William Merritt
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
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Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions74 3/8 x 36 1/4 in.
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10469
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Creator rolePainter
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Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
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LocationBrooklyn Museum
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/28
Accession number13.50
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Creator nameTryon, Dwight William
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
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Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions40 1/2 x 48 3/4 in.
LocationCollection of Mr. and Mrs. Willard G. Clark
May
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Description: Spring Time: Early Spring in New England
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Accession numberF1906.77a-b
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Description: The Entrance to the Tautira River, Tahiti. Fisherman Spearing a Fish
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1895
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions53 1/2 x 60 in.
LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.50673.html
Accession number1966.6.1
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Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 30
Creator nameWyant, Alexander Helwig
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions12 1/8 x 20 in.
LocationTweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Eventide
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Jan 30
Creator nameAlexander, John White
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1894
Object typePainting
The Piano
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Description: Sunset in the Old Orchard, Montclair
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Creator nameInness, George, Sr.
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
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Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions30 x 45 in.
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Sunset in the Old Orchard, Montclair
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Description: Caritas
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Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 30
Creator nameThayer, Abbott Handerson
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1894–1895
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions85 x 55 in.
LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/caritas-31090
Accession number97.199
Caritas
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Description: In a Twentieth-Century Club
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Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 30
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleDraftsman
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Object typeDrawing
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In a Twentieth-Century Club
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Description: In the Shade of a Tree (Sunlight, Connecticut)
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1894
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions27 x 34 in.
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Accession number1967.N–222
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Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 30
Creator nameChase, William Merritt
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1895
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions30 x 48 1/8 in.
LocationToledo Museum of Art, Ohio
http://emuseum.toledomuseum.org:8080/emuseum/objects/54972/
Accession number1924.58
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