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TitleThe American Farmer

Creator nameWood, Thomas Waterman

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1874

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 x 18 1/4 in.

LocationFenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York

https://collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/1971/american-farmer

Accession numberN0310.1961

SubjectsFarmers in artOld age in artGenre painting, American

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7. Inspired from the Higher Classes

Elizabeth Johns

American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life

In 1861, when the Civil War broke out, genre painting as a national enterprise had dropped to a low ebb. Woodville, who had enjoyed a flurry of popularity about 1850, was dead; Bingham had gone to Düsseldorf to study, having long since run through his repertory of Western subjects and given up exhibiting in New York after the collapse of the American Art-Union in 1852; Lilly Martin Spencer had found New York too discouraging and had moved to Newark; Burr had abandoned painting for writing and …

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Elizabeth Johns

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.197-203

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00011.010

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15135&redirecttoanchor=15317

Chapter subject tags:Genre painting, American--19th centuryPainting, American--19th centuryArt and society--United States--History--19th centuryArt criticism--United States--History--19th centuryUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Social classes--United States--History--19th century

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