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TitleCorn Husking Frolic

Creator nameFisher, Alvan T.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1828–1829

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions27 3/4 x 24 1/4 in.

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/corn-husking-frolic-33728

Accession number62.270

SubjectsGenre paintingAgriculture in artNight in art

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1. Ordering the Body Politic

Elizabeth Johns

American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life

Playing to the visual appetites of his fellow Americans at a time of high political excitement in 1849, Richard Caton Woodville, painting in Germany, sent his small, intense picture War News from Mexico, 1848 (pl. 1), to New York to be exhibited. In the image, a group of eight white males gather around a figure who reads aloud from a newspaper. Young, middle-aged, and old in years, acute and thoughtful in expression, and fashionable, restrained, and even outlandish in dress, they congregate on a …

Author

Elizabeth Johns

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-23

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00011.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15129&redirecttoanchor=15240

Chapter subject tags:Genre painting, American--19th centuryWoodville, Richard Caton, 1825-1855United States--Economic conditions--19th centuryArt and society--United States--History--19th centurySocial classes--United States--History--19th century

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