William Merritt Chase, “Keying Up”—The Court Jester, 1875

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Description: Keying Up – The Court Jester

TitleKeying Up – The Court Jester

Creator nameChase, William Merritt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1875

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/keying-court-jester

Accession number1969.37

SubjectsPainting, American--19th centuryFools and jesters in art

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Thomas Eakins and American Art

Darrel Sewell

Thomas Eakins

IN JUNE 1881, Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer, one of America’s most sophisticated art critics, traveled to Philadelphia to visit Thomas Eakins, who had his studio in the town house at 1729 Mount Vernon Street, where he lived with his widowed father, two sisters, and...

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PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

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Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Painting, American--19th centuryPhiladelphia (Pa.)--HistoryChase, William Merritt, 1849-1916Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904Art and society--France--Paris--19th century

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Outskirts of Madrid (Scene Near Madrid)

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameChase, William Merritt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1882

Object typePainting

Materialsoil on canvas

Dimensions32 × 45 3/4 in/ (81.3 × 116.2 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/36684

Accession number1939.265

Outskirts of Madrid (Scene Near Madrid)

In the Studio

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 30

Creator nameChase, William Merritt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions28 x 40 1/8 in.

LocationBrooklyn Museum

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/28

Accession number13.50

In the Studio

Dora Wheeler

Posted by:John Carlson

May 19

Creator nameChase, William Merritt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1882

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions159 × 165.5 cm

LocationCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1921.1239

Accession number1921.1239

Dora Wheeler

Interior of the Artist's Studio (The Tenth Street Studio)

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameChase, William Merritt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions36 × 48 in.

LocationSaint Louis Art Museum

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/33760/

Accession number48.1933

Interior of the Artist's Studio (The...

Interior of the Artist's Studio (The Tenth Street Studio)

A Spanish Bric-a-Brac Shop

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameChase, William Merritt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1882

Object typePainting

Materialsoil on canvas

Dimensions29 1/2 × 48 1/4 in. (74.9 × 122.6 cm)

A Spanish Bric-a-Brac Shop

Hide and Seek

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 09

Creator nameChase, William Merritt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1888

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions27 5/8 × 35 7/8 in. (70.17 × 91.12 cm)

LocationPhillips Collection, Washington, DC

https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/browse-the-collection?id=0298

Hide and Seek

County Election

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May 16

Creator nameBingham, George Caleb

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1852

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions38 x 52 in.

LocationSaint Louis Art Museum

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/29775/

Accession number44:2001

County Election

Ariadne Asleep on the Isle of Naxos

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Jul 20

Creator nameVanderlyn, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1809–1814

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions68 1/2 × 87 in. (174 × 221 cm)

LocationPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

https://www.pafa.org/collection/ariadne-asleep-island-naxos

Accession number1878.1.11

Ariadne Asleep on the Isle of Naxos

Contrebandier aragonais

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Jun 25

Creator nameDannat, Wiliam Turner

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1883

Object typePainting

Materialsoil on canvas

Dimensions120 1/4 × 66 7/8 in. (305.4 × 169.8 cm)

LocationMusée national de la coopération franco-americaine, Château de Blérancourt

Contrebandier aragonais

Nude Girl Standing on a Pedestal

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameVedder, Elihu

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1890

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions19 7/8 × 7 1/4 in. (50.48 × 18.41 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts Boston

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/nude-32244

Accession number26.773

Nude Girl Standing on a Pedestal

Andrew Jackson

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Oct 25

Creator nameVanderlyn, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1823

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions94 × 64 in.

LocationCity Hall, New York

Andrew Jackson

Torre di Schiavi

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Jul 20

Creator nameHotchkiss, Thomas H.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1865

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions22 3/8 × 34 5/8 in. (56.9 × 88.1 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/torre-di-schiavi-10806

Accession number1977.52

Torre di Schiavi

Syrian Ploughman

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameTroye, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1856

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions72 × 120 in.

LocationBethany College, Bethany, West Virginia

Syrian Ploughman

Blackboard

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on wove paper

Dimensions19 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (50.2 x 32.4 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.71552.html

Accession number1990.60.1

Blackboard

Fishing Party on Long Island Sound, Off New Rochelle

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameClonney, James Goodwyn

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1847

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions26 × 36 1/2 in.

LocationThyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid

https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/clonney-james-goodwyn/fishing-party-long-island-sound-new-rochelle

Fishing Party on Long Island Sound, Off...

Fishing Party on Long Island Sound, Off New Rochelle

Canoe in Rapids

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May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1897

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper

Dimensions13 7/8 x 21 in. (35.4 x 53.3 cm)

LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306171

Accession number1924.30

Canoe in Rapids

Thoughts of the Future (Thoughts of Liberia, Emancipation)

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May 16

Creator nameWhite, Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1861

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions17 x 21 in.

LocationNew-York Historical Society

https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/59122/thoughts-of-the-future-thoughts-of-liberia-emancipation

Accession numberS-200

Thoughts of the Future (Thoughts of...

Thoughts of the Future (Thoughts of Liberia, Emancipation)

The Biglin Brothers Racing, detail

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Jun 29

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.42848.html

Accession number1953.7.1

The Biglin Brothers Racing, detail

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, Cooper family and Murillo's Holy Family

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, Cooper...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, Cooper family and Murillo's Holy Family

Belshazzar's Feast

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May 18

Creator nameAllston, Washington

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1817–1843

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions144 1/8 × 192 1/8 in. (366.1 × 488.0 cm)

LocationDetroit Institute of Arts

https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/belshazzars-feast-24436

Accession number55.515

Belshazzar's Feast

The Cumaean Sibyl

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 28

Creator nameVedder, Elihu

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1876

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions96.5 x 149.9 cm

LocationDetroit Institute of Arts

https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/cumaean-sibyl-64090

Accession number57.235

The Cumaean Sibyl

Sketch of the Artist Camped outside Jerusalem

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May 18

Creator nameKellogg, Miner Kilbourne

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on cardboard

Dimensions11 3/4 × 10 in.

LocationCincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=17995754

Sketch of the Artist Camped outside...

Sketch of the Artist Camped outside Jerusalem

Between the Rounds

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Aug 30

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1898-1899

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/42496

Accession number1929-184-16

Between the Rounds

Jaffa

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May 18

Creator nameFairman, James

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1874

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions31 3/4 × 35 in.

Jaffa

The Crucifixion

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions96 x 54 in.

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/42505.html?mulR=2470228|1

Accession number1929-184-24

The Crucifixion

The Peaceable Kingdom

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Aug 24

Creator nameHicks, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions17 7/8 × 23 15/16 in. (45.4 × 60.8 cm)

LocationPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/peaceable-kingdom

Accession number1985.17

The Peaceable Kingdom

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, the Grande Galerie before inpainting

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, the...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, the Grande Galerie before inpainting

The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, 17 June, 1775

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 09

Creator nameTrumbull, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1815–1831

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions19 3/4 × 29 3/4 in. (50.16 × 75.56 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/34260/the-death-of-general-warren-at-the-battle-of-bunkers-hill?ctx=c7bd7678-bd8d-46fd-8c24-a5bd0515acc3&idx=0

Accession number1977.853

The Death of General Warren at the...

The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, 17 June, 1775

The Verdict of the People

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameBingham, George Caleb

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1854–1855

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions46 x 65 in.

LocationSaint Louis Art Museum

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/29776/

Accession number45:2001

The Verdict of the People

Self Portrait

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 24

Creator nameHunt, William Morris

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1849

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31033/self-portrait

Accession number92.2742

Self Portrait

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the Picture of the Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1833

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the...

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the Picture of the Gallery of the Louvre

Annabel Lee

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 07

Creator nameWhistler, James McNeill

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1869–1897

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationHunterian Museum, Glasgow

http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/41283

Accession numberGLAHA:46377

Annabel Lee

Waiting for the Caravan

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1837

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, gouache, glazes, pen and ink, and graphite on paper

Dimensions7 5/8 × 10 5/16 in. (19.4 × 26.2 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/02361118

Accession number0236.1118

Waiting for the Caravan

Winter Coast

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 30

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1890

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions36 x 31 5/8 in.

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/101687.html

Accession numberCat. 1004

Winter Coast

Shipyard at Gloucester

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1871

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions13 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (34.3 x 50.2 cm)

LocationSmith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts

Accession numberSC1950.99

Shipyard at Gloucester

Algerian Shops

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 10

Creator nameTiffany, Louis Comfort

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1872–1887

Object typePainting

MaterialsOpaque watercolor with brush and ink and red chalk on board

LocationBaltimore Museum of Art

https://collection.artbma.org/objects/3410/algerian-shops

Accession number1973.14

Algerian Shops

Cathedral of Seville

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1869–1870

Object typePainting

Materialsoil on canvas mounted on wood

Dimensions16 1/8 × 18 1/8 in. (40.8 × 45.9 cm)

LocationHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Cathedral of Seville

Watch Meeting Dec. 31st 1862 (Waiting for the Hour)

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 28

Creator nameCarlton, William Tolman

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1863

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73.7 × 92.1 cm

LocationMenil Collection, Houston

Watch Meeting Dec. 31st 1862 (Waiting...

Watch Meeting Dec. 31st 1862. Waiting for the Hour

Sunset

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameFairman, James

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions32 × 44 1/2 in.

LocationGraham Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sunset

Home Scene

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 29

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1871

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions21 11/16 x 18 1/16 in. (55.1 x 45.9 cm)

LocationBrooklyn Museum, New York

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1026

Accession number50.115

Home Scene

Key to the People and Art in Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator roleIllustrator

Object typeIllustration

Key to the People and Art in Samuel F....

Key to the People and Art in Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre

Native Hut, Nassau

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1885

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent and opaque watercolor, with graphite, on wove paper

Dimensions14 1/2 x 21 1/8 in. (36.8 x 53.5 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.89670.html

Accession number1994.59.20

Native Hut, Nassau

Native Huts, Nassau

A Quiet Pool on a Sunny Day

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper

Dimensions12 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (32.4 x 50.2 cm)

LocationKaren A. and Kevin W. Kennedy Collection

A Quiet Pool on a Sunny Day

The Recitation

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 30

Creator nameDewing, Thomas Wilmer

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1891

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 x 55 in.

LocationDetroit Institute of Arts

http://www.dia.org/object-info/99aee4a4-f8f8-4d74-aa0f-8a0eb00864d9.aspx

Accession number08.9

The Recitation

Feeding Time

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Dimensions8 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.

LocationClark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

http://www.clarkart.edu/Collection/3035

Accession number1955.1493

Feeding Time

The City and the Country Beaux

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameEdmonds, Francis William

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1838

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions20 1/8 x 24 1/4 in.

LocationClark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

http://www.clarkart.edu/Collection/2480

Accession number1955.915

The City and the Country Beaux

Ruins at Baalbek

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May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1868

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions21 3/4 × 36 1/4 in.

Ruins at Baalbek

The Cock Fight, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1885

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent and opaque watercolor, with traces of scraping, over graphite, on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/99603

Accession number1982.1579

The Cock Fight, detail

Tynemouth Priory, England

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1881

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with traces of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and touches of scraping, over graphite, on thick, rough-textured, cream wove paper (top and lower edges trimmed)

Dimensions10 3/8 × 19 7/8 in. (26.2 × 50.5 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16837

Accession number1933.1254

Tynemouth Priory, England

Moses on the Mount

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May 18

Creator namePratt, Henry Cheeves

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1828–1829

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions48 1/2 × 60 1/2 in.

LocationShelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont

Moses on the Mount

William Williams Keen, Jr., M.D.

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameChase, William Merritt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1901

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions67 x 52 1/2 in.

LocationThomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia

William Williams Keen, Jr., M.D.

Street Urchins

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May 16

Creator nameBlythe, David Gilmour

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1856–1860

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions27 x 22 in.

LocationButler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

Street Urchins

What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameRemington, Frederic

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1895

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions28 1/16 × 35 1/8 in. (71.3 × 89.2 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/24069

Accession number1977.114

What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost

The Judgment of Paris

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Jul 20

Creator nameGray, Henry Peters

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1861

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions50 7/8 × 41 in.

LocationFormerly Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The Judgment of Paris

Venus

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 07

Creator nameWhistler, James McNeill

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1868

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on millboard mounted on wood panel

LocationFreer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

https://asia.si.edu/object/F1903.175a-b/

Accession numberF1903.175a-b

Venus

Historians of the Tribe

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 07

Creator nameRemington, Frederic

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1890

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions62.2 × 111.4 cm (24 1/4 × 43 7/8 in.)

LocationThe Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/97909

Accession number1982.801

Historians of the Tribe

Description: Gallery of the Louvre, detail, before treatment, showing abrasion from previous...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, before treatment, showing abrasion from previous cleaning

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, before...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, before treatment, showing abrasion from previous cleaning

The Card Players

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameWoodville, Richard Caton

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1846

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions18 1/2 x 25 in.

LocationDetroit Institute of Arts

https://dia.org/collection/card-players-65442

Accession number55.175

The Card Players

Commanche Village, Women Dressing Robes and Drying Meat

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameCatlin, George

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1834–1835

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions20 × 27 1/4 in. (50.9 × 69.3 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=4011

Accession number1985.66.346

Commanche Village, Women Dressing Robes...

Commanche Village, Women Dressing Robes and Drying Meat

Description: Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing the Cooper family and the artist thought to...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing the Cooper family and the artist thought to be Richard West Habersham

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing the Cooper family and the artist thought to be Richard West Habersham

Moonrise in Greece

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions14 1/8 × 20 1/4 in.

LocationSanta Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

http://collections.sbma.net/objects/1988/moonrise-in-greece?ctx=7a58ed57-b2a5-455d-9a28-6f050b76e5c2&idx=2

Accession number1966.1

Moonrise in Greece

View of Jerusalem

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameFairman, James

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions32 × 45 in.

View of Jerusalem

The Higher Law

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 28

Creator nameBlythe, David Gilmour

Creator name (description)Signed

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Dimensions51.4 × 62.2 cm

LocationCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Accession number58.56.3

The Higher Law

Pines of the Villa Barberini

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameChapman, John Gadsby

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1856

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions27 × 21 in. (68.6 × 53.3 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts Boston

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/pines-of-the-villa-barberini-33117

Accession number47.1247

Pines of the Villa Barberini

Albano, Italy, detail of label on reverse

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 17

Creator nameInness, George, Jr.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1872–1874

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

LocationPrinceton University Art Museum, New Jersey

http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/27941

Accession numbery1956-121

Albano, Italy, detail of label on...

Albano, Italy, detail of label on reverse

Sugaring Off

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameMatteson, Tompkins Harrison

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1845

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions31 x 42 in.

LocationCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/65492407-64ee-4ef9-91e1-6f9a3f171175

Accession number32.2.1

Sugaring Off

The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 29

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1873

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions40 x 59 1/2 in. (101.6 x 151.1 cm)

LocationCleveland Museum of Art

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927.1984

Accession number1984.1927

The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake

George Henschel

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameSargent, John Singer

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

https://collection.crystalbridges.org/objects/98/portrait-of-george-henschel

George Henschel

The Advance Guard or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 07

Creator nameRemington, Frederic

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1890

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions87.3 × 123.1 cm (34 3/8 × 43 1/2 in.)

LocationThe Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/97910

Accession number1982.802

The Advance Guard or The Military...

The Advance Guard or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)

Classical Ruins, Syria

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1868

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on thin creamboard

Dimensions7 × 10 in.

LocationCooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18191353/

Accession number1917-4-1081

Classical Ruins, Syria

Mountains of Edom

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1870

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions20 × 30 in.

Mountains of Edom

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, artist thought to be Richard West Habersham

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, artist...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, artist thought to be Richard West Habersham

Portrait of Mrs. Morse and Two Children

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1824

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions43 1/4 × 34 in. (109.8 × 86.3 cm)

LocationHigh Museum of Art, Atlanta

https://high.org/collections/portrait-of-mrs-morse-and-two-children/

Accession number2004.58

Portrait of Mrs. Morse and Two Children

Interior of Peale's Museum

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 01

Creator namePeale, Titian Ramsay;Peale, Charles Willson

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican; American

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1822

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor over graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions14 x 20 3/4 in. (35.6 × 52.7 cm)

LocationDetroit Institute of Arts

https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/long-room-interior-front-room-peales-museum-56651

Accession number57.261

Interior of Peale's Museum

Fern Walk, Jamaica

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 31

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1865

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on paper mounted on canvas

Dimensions12 1/4 × 13 1/4 in. (31.1 × 33.7 cm)

LocationOlana State Historic Site, New York State Office of Parks

Fern Walk, Jamaica

Italian Shepherd Boy

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameAllston, Washington

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1819

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions21 × 17 inches (53.3 × 43.2 cm)

LocationDetroit Institute of Arts

https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/italian-shepherd-boy-24437

Accession number44.166

Italian Shepherd Boy

Squatters

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameBingham, George Caleb

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1850

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions23 1/8 x 28 1/4 in. (58.74 x 71.75)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-squatters-34105

Accession number1971.154

Squatters

View in Rome [Arch of Titus]

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameVanderlyn, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1805

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions17 1/2 × 12 1/4 in.

LocationSenate House State Historic Site, Kingston, New York

View in Rome [Arch of Titus]

Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way—near Council Bluffs, Iowa

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMelrose, Andrew W.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1867

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions25 1/2 × 46 in. (64.8 × 116.8 cm)

LocationAutry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles

http://collections.theautry.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=M525994;type=101

Accession number92.147.1

Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its...

Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way—near Council Bluffs, Iowa

Sharpshooter

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1863

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions12 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (31.1 x 41.9 cm)

LocationPortland Museum of Art, Maine

http://collections.portlandmuseum.org/Obj4775

Accession number1992.41

Sharpshooter

The Court of Death

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator namePeale, Rembrandt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1820

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions11 ft. 6 in. × 23 ft. 5 in. (3 m 50.5 cm × 7 m 13.7 cm)

LocationDetroit Institute of Arts

https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/court-death-56658

Accession number85.3

The Court of Death

The Champion Single Sculls, detail with Quaker boat

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 29

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1871

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10819

Accession number34.92

The Champion Single Sculls, detail with...

The Champion Single Sculls, detail with Quaker boat

Damascus

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameMelrose, Andrew W.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Damascus

Gallery of the Louvre installed at the National Gallery of Art

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameLeslie, Patricia

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date2012

Object typePhotograph

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Gallery of the Louvre installed at the...

Gallery of the Louvre installed at the National Gallery of Art

Washerwomen, Seville

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameUlrich, Charles Frederick

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1888

Object typePainting

Materialsoil on panel

Dimensions19 1/4 × 24 in. (48.9 × 61 cm)

LocationUnknown, Courtesy Debra Force Fine Art

Washerwomen, Seville

Sharks (The Derelict)

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1885

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions14 1/2 x 21 in. (36.8 x 53.2 cm)

LocationBrooklyn Museum

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/104498/

Accession number78.151.4

Sharks (The Derelict)

The Mexican Major

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 07

Creator nameRemington, Frederic

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions128.9 × 168 cm (50 3/4 × 66 1/8 in.)

LocationThe Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/97912

Accession number1982.804

The Mexican Major

Barberini Villa, Italy [Villa Borghese, Rome?]

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameInness, George, Sr.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions9 × 13 1/16 in.

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

Barberini Villa, Italy [Villa Borghese,...

Barberini Villa, Italy [Villa Borghese, Rome?]

The Trapper's Bride

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1837

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, gouache, flazes, pen and ink, and graphite on paper

Dimensions10 3/4 × 8 3/4 in. (27.3 × 21.6 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Trapper's Bride

The Agnew Clinic, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationUniversity of Pennsylvania Art Collection, Philadelphia

http://artcollection.upenn.edu/collection/art/10/the-agnew-clinic/

Accession number#1889.0001

The Agnew Clinic, detail

Sir William Drummond Stewart Meeting Indian Chief

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1839

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions33 × 42 1/2 in. (83.8 × 107.1 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/0126738

Accession number0126.738

Sir William Drummond Stewart Meeting...

Sir William Drummond Stewart Meeting Indian Chief

Description: Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Thirty-seven in Number, from the Most...

Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Thirty-seven in Number, from the Most Celebrated Masters, Copied into the Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1833

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures,...

Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Thirty-seven in Number, from the Most Celebrated Masters, Copied into the Gallery of the Louvre

Ghost Dance (The Vision of Life)

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 07

Creator nameBlakelock, Ralph Albert

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1895–1897

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions53.7 × 100 cm (28 1/8 × 39 3/8)

LocationThe Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/90062

Accession number1947.55

Ghost Dance (The Vision of Life)

The Banjo Lesson

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 09

Creator nameTanner, Henry Ossawa

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1893

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions49 × 35 1/2 in. (124.46 × 90.17 cm)

LocationHampton University Museum, Virginia

The Banjo Lesson

John Biglin in a Single Scull

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 29

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1874

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 3/8 x 16 in. (61.9 x 40.6 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5464

Accession number1932.263

John Biglin in a Single Scull

County Election

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 07

Creator nameSartain, John

Creator name (description)After a painting by George Caleb Bingham

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1854

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving, handcolored with watercolor, on cream chine laid down on cream wove plate paper

DimensionsImage: 55.6 × 76.2 cm (21 7/8 × 30 in.)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/151565

Accession number1999.278

County Election

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameFairman, James

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1875

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions31 3/4 × 45 in.

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

El Jaleo installed in the Spanish Cloister

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameMarr, Thomas E. & Son

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1915

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsGelatin silver print

LocationIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/34148

Accession numberARC.008393

El Jaleo installed in the Spanish...

Spanish Cloister

Key to the Pictures

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleIllustrator

Creation date1833

Object typeIllustration

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Key to the Pictures

Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 30

Creator nameWhistler, James McNeill

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1884

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions97 13/16 x 55 3/8 in.

LocationCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/193cc7e6-9380-4059-b50c-f5876319c5fa

Accession number96.2

Arrangement in Black: Portrait of...

Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate

Nearing the Issue at the Cockpit

Posted by:John Carlson

May 17

Creator nameBonham, Horace

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1879

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions51.12 × 68.58 cm (20 1/8 × 27 in.)

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Corcoran Collection)

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.177072.html

Accession number2014.136.121

Nearing the Issue at the Cockpit

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, Morse and his pupil

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, Morse and...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, Morse and his pupil

Mount Sinai and the Valley of Es-Seba'iyeh

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameKellogg, Miner Kilbourne

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions53 × 89 in.

Mount Sinai and the Valley of...

Mount Sinai and the Valley of Es-Seba'iyeh

Old Virginia Home

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 28

Creator nameBlythe, David Gilmour

Creator name (description)Signed

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Dimensions52.7 × 73 cm

LocationArt Institute of Chicago, Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/55380

Accession number1979.55

Old Virginia Home

The House of Representatives

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1822

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions86 7/8 × 130 5/8 in. (220.6 × 331.8 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Corcoran Collection)

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166463.html

Accession number2014.79.27

The House of Representatives

Francis I, Study for Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator name (description)Copy after Titian

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions10 x 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/629/francis-i-study-for-gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession numberC1984.5

Francis I, Study for Gallery of the...

Francis I, Study for Gallery of the Louvre

The Last Furrow

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor and gum glaze on hot-pressed white wove paper

Dimensions13 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. (33.7 x 50.2 cm)

LocationKaren A. and Kevin W. Kennedy Collection

The Last Furrow

Bourgeois W—r, & His Squaw (Mountain Man Joe Walker)

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1858–1860

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions9 5/16 × 11 11/16 in. (23.7 × 29.7 cm)

LocationWalters Art Museum, Baltimore

http://art.thewalters.org/detail/14801/bourgeois-w---r-and-his-squaw/

Accession number37.1940.78

Bourgeois W—r, & His Squaw...

Bourgeois W—r, & His Squaw (Mountain Man Joe Walker)

Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameVanderlyn, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1807

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions87 × 68 1/2 in.

LocationFine Arts Museum of San Francisco

https://art.famsf.org/john-vanderlyn/caius-marius-amid-ruins-carthage-49835

Accession number1922.07.17

Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage

Marius Amidst the Ruins of Carthage

Pine Grove, Barberini Villa, Albano, Italy

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameInness, George, Sr.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1874

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 1/4 × 45 3/8 in. (76.84 × 115.25 cm)

LocationVirginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Accession number44.16.1

Pine Grove, Barberini Villa, Albano,...

Pine Grove, Barberini Villa, Albano, Italy

The Jolly Flat Boat Men

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameDoney, Thomas

Creator name (description)Thomas Doney, lithographer; after a painting by George Caleb Bingham

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1847

Object typePrint

MaterialsHand-colored intaglio, mixed technique (mezzotint, etching, and engraving)

Dimensions24 13/16 x 19 11/16 in. (63 x 75.4 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/48528

Accession number1946.131

The Jolly Flat Boat Men

Cigarette Girls, Seville

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameGay, Walter

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1895

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions50 1/8 × 67 3/8 in. (127.3 × 171.2 cm)

LocationColby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

http://www.colby.edu/museum/?s=walter gay&obj=Obj2023?sid=959&x=40252

Accession number1968.008

Cigarette Girls, Seville

The Buffalo Hunt

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameWimar, Charles Ferdinand

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1860

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions35 1/4 × 152.4 in. (89.5 × 152.4 cm)

LocationMildred Lane Kemper Museum, Washington University in St. Louis

http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/1483

Accession numberWU 3411

The Buffalo Hunt

George Clarke

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1829

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions43 1/8 × 34 3/4 in. (109.5 × 88.3 cm)

LocationSaint Louis Art Museum

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/7545/

Accession number17:1975

George Clarke

View of the Seine, Looking toward Notre-Dame

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 01

Creator nameTanner, Henry Ossawa

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1896

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationDixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

http://collections.dixon.org/objects/2281/view-of-the-seine-looking-toward-notredame

Accession number2018.4

View of the Seine, Looking toward...

View of the Seine, Looking toward Notre-Dame

Katherine Cassatt Reading to her Grandchildren (La Lecture)

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 23

Creator nameCassatt, Mary

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions55.9 × 100.3 cm

LocationPrivate collection, New York

Katherine Cassatt Reading to her...

Katherine Cassatt Reading to her Grandchildren (La Lecture)

The Earl of Angus Conferring Knighthood on De Wilton

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 18

Creator nameTrumbull, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1810

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions94 1/2 x 66 11/16 in. (240 x 169.4 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/128

Accession number1832.82

The Earl of Angus Conferring Knighthood...

The Earl of Angus Conferring Knighthood on De Wilton

Building a Smudge

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1891

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over traces of graphite, on wove paper

Dimensions13 1/2 x 20 5/8 in. (34.3 x 52.4 cm)

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/142790.html

Accession number2002-10-1

Building a Smudge

Smoke of Ambergris (Fumée d'ambre gris)

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameSargent, John Singer

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions54 3/4 × 35 7/8 in. (139.1 × 90.7 cm)

LocationSterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

https://www.clarkart.edu/ArtPiece/Detail/Fumee-d-ambre-gris-(Smoke-of-Ambergris)-(1)

Accession number1955.15

Smoke of Ambergris (Fumée d'ambre...

Fumée d'ambre gris

Wood Boat

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameBingham, George Caleb

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1850

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 3/4 in × 29 5/8 in.

LocationSaint Louis Art Museum

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/62/

Accession number14:1951

Wood Boat

Lake Nemi

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameInness, George, Sr.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions29 3/4 × 44 7/8 in. (75.6 × 114 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts Boston

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/lake-nemi-33371

Accession number49.412

Lake Nemi

Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 30

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1875

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/299524

Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The...

Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), detail

Arcadia

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1883

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions38 5/8 x 45 in. (98.1 x 114.3 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10810

Accession number67.187.125

Arcadia

Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1833

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Gallery of the Louvre

Weary

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and scraping, heightened with gum glaze, over graphite, on medium-weight, rough-textured, ivory wove paper, laid down on gray board

Dimensions9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. (24.1 x 31.1 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/232/weary

Accession number1992.41

Weary

The Trapper's Bride

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1845

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)

LocationEiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis

The Trapper's Bride

Making Moccasins

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1837-1838

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions6 5/16 × 5 1/2 in. (16 × 14 cm)

LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut

http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3806836

Accession number10686736

Making Moccasins

Watson and the Shark

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameCopley, John Singleton

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1778

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions72 1/4 x 90 3/8 in. (183.5 x 229.6 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/watson-and-the-shark-30998

Accession number89.481

Watson and the Shark

Professor Henry A. Rowland

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1897

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions80 1/4 x 54 in. (203.84 x 137.16 cm)

LocationPhillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

http://accessaddison.andover.edu/Obj1516

Accession number1931.5

Professor Henry A. Rowland

A Mexican Vaquero

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 07

Creator nameRemington, Frederic

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1890

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions82.6 × 58.4 cm (32 1/2 × 23 in.)

LocationThe Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/97907

Accession number1982.799

A Mexican Vaquero

Dying Hercules

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1812

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions96 1/4 × 78 1/8 in. (244.5 × 198.4 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/224

Accession number1866.3

Dying Hercules

The Dying Hercules

The Appian Way, Rome

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameChapman, John Linton

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions29 7/8 × 71 in.

The Appian Way, Rome

William Rush Carving the Allegorical Figure of the Schuykill River (study)

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 30

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1876

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas mounted on composition board

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/23954

Accession number1979.14.5

William Rush Carving the Allegorical...

William Rush Carving the Allegorical Figure of the Schuykill River

The Watcher, Tynemouth

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1882

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent and opaque watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, heightened with gum glaze, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper (all edges trimmed)

Dimensions8 3/8 x 14 7/8 in. (21.3 x 37.7 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16840

Accession number1933.1255

The Watcher, Tynemouth

Self-Portrait of the Artist in His Studio

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameHovenden, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1875

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions26 5/8 x 17 5/8 in. (67.6 x 44.8 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/8585

Accession number1969.28

Self-Portrait of the Artist in His...

Self-Portrait of the Artist in His Studio

Miracle of Saint Mark

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator name (description)copy after Jacopo Tintoretto

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions27 × 38 3/8 in. (68.6 × 97.5 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31735/miracle-of-saint-mark

Accession number18.653

Miracle of Saint Mark

The Peaceable Kingdom and Penn's Treaty

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameHicks, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1845

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 1/4 x 31 in. (61.6 x 78.7 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/15332

Accession number1965.46.3

The Peaceable Kingdom and Penn's Treaty

The Peaceable Kingdom and Penn's Treaty, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameHicks, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1845

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/15332

Accession number1965.46.3

The Peaceable Kingdom and Penn's Treaty,...

The Peaceable Kingdom and Penn's Treaty, detail

Tynemouth Priory, England, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1881

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with traces of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and touches of scraping, over graphite, on thick, rough-textured, cream wove paper

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16837

Accession number1933.1254

Tynemouth Priory, England, detail

The Quartette

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameDannat, Wiliam Turner

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1884

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions94 3/8 × 92 3/4 in. (239.7 × 235.6 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10614

Accession number87.26

The Quartette

The Pursuit

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameTait, Arthur Fitzwilliam

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1856

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 x 44 3/8 in.

LocationMilwaukee Art Museum

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=13774

Accession numberM1971.24a

The Pursuit

Sponge Fishermen, Bahamas

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1885

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent and opaque watercolor, with graphite, on off-white wove paper

Dimensions11 x 20 1/8 in. (27.9 x 51.1 cm)

LocationKaren A. and Kevin W. Kennedy Collection

Sponge Fishermen, Bahamas

How Many Eggs?

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1873

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent and opaque watercolor, over graphite, on hot-pressed, white wove paper, mounted to millboard

Dimensions13 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (33.3 x 24.3 cm)

LocationKaren A. and Kevin W. Kennedy Collection

How Many Eggs?

Miss Amelia Van Buren

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1891

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions45 x 32 in. (114.3 x 81.28 cm)

LocationPhillips Collection, Washington, DC

https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/miss-amelia-van-buren

Miss Amelia Van Buren

Miss Amelia C. Van Buren

The Jolly Flatboatmen

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameBingham, George Caleb

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1846

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions38 x 48 1/2 in.

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.75206.html

Accession number2015.18.1

The Jolly Flatboatmen

The Course of Empire: Consummation

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameCole, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1835–1836

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions51 × 76 in.

LocationNew-York Historical Society

https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/54911/the-course-of-empire-the-consummation-of-empire

Accession number1858.3

The Course of Empire: Consummation

The Course of Empire: The Consummation

The News Boys

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameBlythe, David Gilmour

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1846–1852

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas mounted on academy board

Dimensions29 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.

LocationCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/027869bd-6bad-4f58-9c82-6a43150497bd

Accession number56.26

The News Boys

A Wintry Walk

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameHarrison, Birge

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions16 1/2 x 20 in. (42 x 51 cm)

A Wintry Walk

The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 09

Creator nameRyder, Albert Pinkham

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1896–1908

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions27 3/4 × 35 7/16 in. (70.5 × 90 cm)

LocationCleveland Museum of Art

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1928.8

Accession number1928.8

The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)

Breaking Storm, Coast of Maine

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1894

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and traces of scraping, on thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper

Dimensions15 1/8 × 21 1/2 in. (38.4 × 54.6 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16779

Accession number1933.1236

Breaking Storm, Coast of Maine

Beach Scene, Cullercoats

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1881

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions11 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (29.1 x 49.5 cm)

LocationClark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

http://www.clarkart.edu/Collection/2491

Accession number1955.1490

Beach Scene, Cullercoats

Children on a Fence

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1874

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper

Dimensions7 1/4 x 11 7/8 in. (18.3 x 30.2 cm)

LocationWilliams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Accession number41.2

Children on a Fence

Bringing Home the Bride

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameHovenden, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1893

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions56 × 78 in.

LocationUniversity of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

Bringing Home the Bride

The House of Representatives, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1822

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Corcoran Collection)

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166463.html

Accession number2014.79.27

The House of Representatives, detail

Moorish Mosque of Sidi Halou Tlemcin, Algeria

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 10

Creator nameColman, Samuel

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1875

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor and opaque watercolor on paper

LocationPrivate collection

Moorish Mosque of Sidi Halou Tlemcin,...

Moorish Mosque of Sidi Halou Tlemcin, Algeria

A Male Model Standing before a Stove

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameSargent, John Singer

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1875–1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12128

Accession number1972.32

A Male Model Standing before a Stove

A Street Scene in Seville

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1870

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions62 3/4 × 42 in. (159.4 × 106.7 cm)

LocationErving and Joyce Wolf Collection

A Street Scene in Seville

Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 07

Creator nameWhistler, James McNeill

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1876–1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationFrick Collection, New York

https://collections.frick.org/objects/282/arrangement-in-brown-and-black-portrait-of-miss-rosa-corder

Accession number1914.1.134

Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait...

Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder

Mourning Her Brave

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameBrush, George de Forest

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1883

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions35 1/2 × 25 3/4 in. (90.2 × 65.4 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/011189

Accession number01.1189

Mourning Her Brave

An Artist's Studio

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameWeir, John Ferguson

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1864

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions25 1/2 × 30 1/2 in. (64.7 × 77.4 cm)

LocationLos Angeles County Museum of Art

https://collections.lacma.org/node/253737

Accession numberM.86.307

An Artist's Studio

Surf, Prout's Neck

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1883

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on cream wove paper

Dimensions11 3/8 x 19 1/2 in. (29 x 49.4 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/53281

Accession number1984.32.15

Surf, Prout's Neck

Madonna and Child Visiting the Family of John the Baptist

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameLandis, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions9 5/16 × 13 7/16 in.

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.42512.html

Accession number1953.5.109

Madonna and Child Visiting the Family of...

Madonna and Child Visiting the Family of John the Baptist

The Post Office

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameBlythe, David Gilmour

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1859–1863

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 x 20 in.

LocationCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/4e98224a-7f40-427c-aa25-40444a2215dc

Accession number42.9

The Post Office

In the Woodshed

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameClonney, James Goodwyn

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1838

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions17 1/4 x 14 in.

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/in-the-woodshed-33065

Accession number47.1193

In the Woodshed

Arch of Titus

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameHealy, George Peter Alexander;Church, Frederic Edwin;McEntee, Jervis

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1871

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions74 × 49 in.

LocationNewark Museum, New Jersey

Accession number26.126

Arch of Titus

The Return, Tynemouth, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1881

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and scraping, heightened with gum glaze, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/113064

Accession number1933.1251R

The Return, Tynemouth, detail

Prout's Neck, Breaking Wave

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1887

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over resist and traces of graphite, on medium-weight, moderately textured, ivory wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper

Dimensions15 x 21 3/8 in. (38 x 54.4 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16818

Accession number1993.1248

Prout's Neck, Breaking Wave

Venus Arising from the Sea: A Deception (After the Bath)

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator namePeale, Raphaelle

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1823

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions29 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. (74 × 61.3 cm)

LocationNelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

http://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/30797/venus-rising-from-the-seaa-deception

Accession number34-147

Venus Arising from the Sea: A Deception...

Venus Arising from the Sea: A Deception (After the Bath)

Under the Falls, The Grand Discharge

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainting

Creation date1895

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, over graphite, with touches of opaque watercolor and gold leaf, and possibly brown ink, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions13 7/8 x 20 in. (35.2 x 50.8 cm)

LocationBrooklyn Museum

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2847

Accession number78.151.2

Under the Falls, The Grand Discharge

The Questioner of the Sphinx

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 28

Creator nameVedder, Elihu

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1863

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions91.5 x 106 cm

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-questioner-of-the-sphinx-31296

Accession number06.2430

The Questioner of the Sphinx

Spanish Girl of Segovia

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameHenri, Robert

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1912

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions40 3/4 × 33 1/8 in. (103.5 × 87.1 cm)

LocationNew Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

https://ink.nbmaa.org/objects/66/spanish-girl-of-segovia

Accession number1941.07

Spanish Girl of Segovia

The Roman Daughter

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator namePeale, Rembrandt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1811

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions84 5/8 × 62 7/8 in. (215 × 159.8 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/roman-daughter-19323

Accession number1977.103

The Roman Daughter

The Sphinx

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameKellogg, Miner Kilbourne

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1858

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationGallier House Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana

The Sphinx

Tropical Moonlight

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1874

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 1/4 × 25 1/4 in.

Tropical Moonlight

Bazaar in Damascus

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameTroye, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1856

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions84 × 64 in.

LocationBethany College, Bethany, West Virginia

Bazaar in Damascus

Jerusalem

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameFairman, James

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions31 × 44 in.

LocationChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah

Jerusalem

The Writing Master

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1882

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 x 34 1/4 in.

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10828

Accession number17.173

The Writing Master

Joseph Gales

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Dimensions5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (13.97 × 8.89 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.176300.html

Accession number2014.136.72

Joseph Gales

Description: Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing Morse's repainting of the damaged wall...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing Morse's repainting of the damaged wall without the decorative design

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing Morse's repainting of the damaged wall without the decorative design

The Resignation of General Washington

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 18

Creator nameTrumbull, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1822–1824

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions(144 × 216 in.) 365.76 × 548.64 cm

LocationRotunda, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

The Resignation of General Washington

Fort Laramie. From Nature by A. J. Miller 1836 & 7

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1837

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions7 1/2 × 11 5/8 in. (19 × 29.5 cm)

LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut

http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3432117

Accession number2001476

Fort Laramie. From Nature by A. J....

Fort Laramie. From Nature by A. J. Miller 1836 & 7

International Indian Council (Held at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, 1843), detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 31

Creator nameStanley, John Mix

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1843

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=22854

Accession number1985.66.248,934B

International Indian Council (Held at...

International Indian Council (Held at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, 1843), detail

View of S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 10

Creator nameInness, George, Sr.

Creator name (description)Attributed to George Inness, Sr.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1873

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor and gouache on green wove paper

LocationWilliams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

http://egallery.williams.edu/objects/6981/view-of-s-giorgio-maggiore-venice?ctx=3fbed519-d514-463a-89af-2a2e93ef0cab&idx=0

Accession number41.3

View of S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Dressing for the Rehearsal

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameGuy, Seymour Joseph

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1890

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions34 1/8 × 27 3/8 in.

LocationNational Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=9757

Accession number1936.12.5

Dressing for the Rehearsal

Orange Tree, Nassau

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1885

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions14 1/2 x 20 3/4 in. (36.8 x 52.7 cm)

LocationPrivate Collection

Orange Tree, Nassau

The Return, Tynemouth

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1881

Object typePainting

Dimensions13 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (34.2 x 34.3 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/113064

Accession number1933.1251R

The Return, Tynemouth

A May Morning in the Park (The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand)

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1879–1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions23 3/4 x 36 in. (60.3 x 91.4 cm)

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/43938.html?mulR=518815472|5

Accession number1930-105-1

A May Morning in the Park (The Fairman...

A May Morning in the Park (The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand)

The Dead Sea

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameTroye, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1856

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions66 × 124 in.

LocationBethany College, Bethany, West Virginia

The Dead Sea

Self-Portrait in a Carriage

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameTroye, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1852

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions38 × 54 in.

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5435

Accession number1932.236

Self-Portrait in a Carriage

Portrait of a Lady

Posted by:John Carlson

May 19

Creator nameJuengling, Frederick

Creator name (description)after William Merritt Chase

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1881

Object typePrint

LocationThe Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

Portrait of a Lady

The Country School

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1871

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions21 1/4 x 38 1/4 in. (54 x 97.2 cm)

LocationSaint Louis Art Museum

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/36767/

Accession number123:1946

The Country School

Tynemouth Priory, England, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1881

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with traces of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and touches of scraping, over graphite, on thick, rough-textured, cream wove paper

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16837

Accession number1933.1254

Tynemouth Priory, England, detail

Coast Scene

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameForest, Lockwood de, Sr.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1892

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions21 × 30 in.

LocationNational Academy of Design, New York City

Coast Scene

John Bascombe

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameTroye, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1836

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions25 × 30 in.

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/61731

Accession number1932.231

John Bascombe

Breaking Home Ties

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 30

Creator nameHovenden, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1890

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions52 1/4 x 72 1/4 in.

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/47809.html

Accession number1942-60-1

Breaking Home Ties

The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1871

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions32 1/4 x 46 1/4 in. (81.9 x 117.5 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10819

Accession number34.92

The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt...

The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)

The Wreck of the Iron Crown

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1881

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent and opaque watercolor, with graphite, with touches of charcoal, on moderately textured cream wove paper

Dimensions20 1/4 x 29 3/8 in. (51.4 x 74.7 cm)

LocationCarleton Mitchell and Ruth Mitchell Collection, extended loan to the Baltimore Museum of Art

Accession numberR.8613.2

The Wreck of the Iron Crown

The Chess Players

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Dimensions11 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10813

Accession number81.14

The Chess Players

Flamborough Head, England, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1882

Object typePainting

MaterialsGraphite and opaque white watercolor on medium-thick, slightly textured, tan laid paper with red and blue fibers

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16791

Accession number1933.124

Flamborough Head, England, detail

The Indian Council

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameEastman, Seth

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1852

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions26 × 36 in. (66 × 91.4 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/01261182

Accession number0126.1182

The Indian Council

Description: Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing damage probably caused by rolling up the...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing damage probably caused by rolling up the canvas while the paint was still wet

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, showing damage probably caused by rolling up the canvas while the paint was still wet

Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1833

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Gallery of the Louvre

The Spirit of Peace

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameCropsey, Jasper Francis

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1851

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions43 3/4 × 67 3/8 in.

LocationWoodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/the-spirit-of-peace

The Spirit of Peace

Nocturne in Blue and Silver

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 30

Creator nameWhistler, James McNeill

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1871

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions17 1/2 x 23 3/4 in.

LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/299838

Accession number1943.176

Nocturne in Blue and Silver

Racing—near Wind River Mountains

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1837–1839

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paper

Dimensions7 1/16 × 8 5/16 in. (17.9 × 21.2 cm)

LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut

http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3781991

Accession number10610317

Racing—near Wind River Mountains

Racing—near Wind River Mountains [a scene from the summer fur trading rendezvous]

Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre

Moses Viewing the Promised Land

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1846

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on academy board

Dimensions9 1/2 × 12 1/4 in.

LocationCollection of Dr. Sheldon and Jessie Stern

Moses Viewing the Promised Land

Mosque at Córdoba

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameWeeks, Edwin Lord

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions56 × 72 5/8 in. (142.2 × 184.4 cm)

LocationWalters Art Museum, Baltimore

https://art.thewalters.org/detail/22767/interior-of-a-mosque-at-cordova/

Accession number37.169

Mosque at Córdoba

Apple Gathering

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameThompson, Jerome

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1856

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions39 13/16 x 49 3/4 in.

LocationBrooklyn Museum of Art

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1302

Accession number67.61

Apple Gathering

Indians Playing Lacrosse on the Ice

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameCoates, Edmund C.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1859

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions28 1/2 x 35 1/8 in. (72.4 x 89.2 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/6261

Accession number1934.19

Indians Playing Lacrosse on the Ice

The Gulf Stream

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1899

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and traces of blotting, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper (lower edge trimmed)

Dimensions11 3/8 x 20 in. (28.8 x 50.9 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16794

Accession number1933.1241

The Gulf Stream

The Pair-Oared Shell

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 29

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm)

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/42516?

Accession number1929-184-35

The Pair-Oared Shell

Call the Doctor

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 07

Creator nameRemington, Frederic

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions61.2 × 86.9 cm (24 1/16 × 34 3/16 in.)

Call the Doctor

The Agnew Clinic, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 08

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationUniversity of Pennsylvania Art Collection, Philadelphia

http://artcollection.upenn.edu/collection/art/10/the-agnew-clinic/

Accession number1889.0001

The Agnew Clinic, detail

Oosisoak

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 21

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1861

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions23 × 17 in.

LocationPrivate collection

Oosisoak

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, the Grande Galerie after treatment

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, the...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, the Grande Galerie after treatment

Jerusalem the Golden

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameHovenden, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1892–1894

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 × 40 in.

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11159

Accession number95.5

Jerusalem the Golden

John Brown's Blessing

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 28

Creator nameNoble, Thomas Satterwhite

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1867

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions214 × 153 cm

LocationNew-York Historical Society

https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/55251/john-browns-blessing

Accession number1939.250

John Brown's Blessing

Sketching at Easthampton

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 10

Creator nameAbbey, Edwin Austin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor and gouache on paper

LocationHeckscher Museum, Huntington, New York

Accession number2001.9.1

Sketching at Easthampton

Summer

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameDewing, Thomas Wilmer

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1890

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions20 1/2 x 36 in. (52.1 x 91.4 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/46694

Accession number1947.83

Summer

Gambling for the Buck

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameStanley, John Mix

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1867

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions20 × 15 7/8 in. (50.8 × 40.3 cm)

LocationStark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas

https://collections.starkculturalvenues.org/objects/37429/gambling-for-the-buck

Accession number1965.2.253

Gambling for the Buck

River Jordan–Bethabara

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameTroye, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1856

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions45 × 66 in.

LocationBethany College, Bethany, West Virginia

River Jordan–Bethabara

The Return, Tynemouth, photomicrograph

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1881

Object typePainting

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/113064

Accession number1933.1251

The Return, Tynemouth, photomicrograph

Hudson River, Logging

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1891–1892

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite, on white wove paper

Dimensions14 x 20 5/8 in. (35.5 x 52.7 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Corcoran Collection)

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.79863.html

Accession number2014.136.171

Hudson River, Logging

Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 30

Creator nameWhistler, James McNeill

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1875

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions23 3/4 x 18 3/8 in.

LocationDetroit Institute of Arts

https://dia.org/collection/nocturne-black-and-gold-falling-rocket-64931

Accession number46.309

Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling...

Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket

The Baptism of Pocahontas at Jamestown, Virginia, 1613

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameChapman, John Gadsby

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1837–1840

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions144 × 216 in. (365.8 × 548.6 cm)

LocationUnited States Capitol Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

https://www.aoc.gov/art/historic-rotunda-paintings/baptism-pocahontas

The Baptism of Pocahontas at Jamestown,...

The Baptism of Pocahontas at Jamestown, Virginia, 1613

Death of Jane McCrea

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameVanderlyn, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1804

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions32 × 26 1/2 in.

LocationWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

Accession number1855.4

Death of Jane McCrea

The Agnew Clinic, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 30

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationUniversity of Pennsylvania Art Collection, Philadelphia

http://artcollection.upenn.edu/collection/art/10/the-agnew-clinic/

Accession number1889.001

The Agnew Clinic, detail

Self-Portrait

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameAllston, Washington

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1805

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions31 5/8 × 26 1/2 in. (80.3 × 67.3 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/30948/self-portrait

Accession number84.301

Self-Portrait

Swimming

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1885

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions27 3/8 x 36 3/8 in. (69.5 x 92.4 cm)

LocationAmon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

http://www.cartermuseum.org/artworks/491

Accession number1990.19.1

Swimming

Doing Nothing

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameYewell, George Henry

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1852

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions14 x 12 in.

LocationNew-York Historical Society

https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/424/doing-nothing

Accession number1933.8

Doing Nothing

Figures in a Middle Eastern Landscape

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameFairman, James

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 1/4 × 35 in.

Figures in a Middle Eastern Landscape

Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 11

Creator nameJohnson, Joshua

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1803–1805

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions38 x 32 in. (81.3 x 71.1 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/150054?search_no=29&index=0

Accession number1998.315

Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son,...

Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson

Pipe of Peace at the Rendevous

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1839

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions39 1/4 × 69 1/4 in. (99.7 × 175.9 cm

LocationStark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas

http://collections.starkculturalvenues.org/objects/38332/pipe-of-peace-at-the-rendezvous

Accession number31.34.29

Pipe of Peace at the Rendevous

Dr. Agnew (Dr. D. Hayes Agnew)

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions49 x 31 1/2 in. (124.5 x 80 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52922

Accession number1961.18.16

Dr. Agnew (Dr. D. Hayes Agnew)

The Sailor's Wedding

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameWoodville, Richard Caton

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1852

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions18 1/2 x 22 in.

LocationWalters Art Gallery, Baltimore

http://art.thewalters.org/detail/22135/the-sailors-wedding/

Accession number37.142

The Sailor's Wedding

The Artist's Studio in an Afternoon Fog

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1894

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 × 30 1/4 in. (61 × 76.8 cm)

LocationMemorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York

http://magart.rochester.edu/Obj455?sid=6046&x=285340

Accession number41.32

The Artist's Studio in an Afternoon Fog

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the Picture of the Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1833

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the...

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the Picture of the Gallery of the Louvre

The Sportsman's Last Visit

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameMount, William Sidney

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1835

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.

LocationLong Island Museum, Stony Brook

http://longislandmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/29EC61AE-8335-41A8-B429-821796071008

Accession number0000.001.0020

The Sportsman's Last Visit

Romantic Landscape

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameAllston, Washington

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1803

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions33 × 42 in.

LocationConcord Free Public Library, Massachusetts

Romantic Landscape

James Fenimore Cooper

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameJarvis, John Wesley

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1822

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm)

LocationFenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York

http://collections.fenimoreartmuseum.org/james-fenimore-cooper-1789-1851

Accession numberN0146.1977

James Fenimore Cooper

View from the Mountains toward Damascus, Syria

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1868

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on thin creamboard

Dimensions4 1/2 × 8 9/16 in.

LocationCooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18201133/

Accession number1917-4-729

View from the Mountains toward Damascus,...

View from the Mountains toward Damascus, Syria

The Biglin Brothers Racing

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 29

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 1/8 x 36 1/8 in. (61.3 x 91.8 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.42848.html

Accession number1953.7.1

The Biglin Brothers Racing

Promissory Note from George Hyde Clarke for Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameClarke, George Hyde

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1834

Object typeLetter

LocationCornell University Library, Ithaca, New York

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM02800.html

Accession numberGeorge Hyde Clarke Family Papers, #2800, Box 43, Folder 3

Promissory Note from George Hyde Clarke...

Promissory Note from George Hyde Clarke for Gallery of the Louvre

Morse Family Portrait

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1810

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions12 × 15 in. (30.4 × 38.1 cm)

LocationNational Museum of American History, Washington, DC

https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_1170956

Accession number1923.70832

Morse Family Portrait

Two Heads of a Bearded Man

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameSargent, John Singer

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1891–1892

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationChilds Gallery, Boston

Two Heads of a Bearded Man

The Watcher, Tynemouth, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1882

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent and opaque watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, heightened with gum glaze, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16840

Accession number1933.1255

The Watcher, Tynemouth, detail

The Jolly Flatboatmen

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 21

Creator nameBingham, George Caleb

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877–1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions26 1/16 × 36 3/8 in.

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/179/the-jolly-flatboatmen

Accession number1992.15

The Jolly Flatboatmen

Drunkard's Plight

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDuncanson, Robert Seldon

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1845

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions15 1/4 × 19 3/4 in.

LocationDetroit Institute of Arts

https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/drunkards-plight-42993

Accession number44.277

Drunkard's Plight

Two Bedouin

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1874

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on cardboard

Dimensions12 1/2 × 17 7/8 in.

LocationCooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18201505/

Accession number1917-4-761

Two Bedouin

The Power of Music

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameMount, William Sidney

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1847

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions17 1/16 x 21 1/16 in. (43.4 x 53.5 cm)

LocationCleveland Museum of Art

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1991.110

Accession number1991.110

The Power of Music

Woman in a Plaid Shawl

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Susan Macdowell

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas mounted to panel

Dimensions28 1/16 x 21 in.

LocationPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

https://www.pafa.org/collection/girl-plaid-shawl

Accession number1985.68.39.6

Woman in a Plaid Shawl

Long Jakes, "The Rocky Mountain Man"

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameDeas, Charles

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1844

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 × 24 7/8 in.

LocationDenver Art Museum

http://denverartmuseum.org/object/1998.241

Accession number1998.241

Long Jakes, "The Rocky Mountain Man"

Long Jakes

Spanish Women

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameDannat, Wiliam Turner

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1892

Object typePainting

Locationillustrated in William Walton, Art and Architecture. Philadelphia: G. Barrie, 1893-5, 2:23

Spanish Women

The Intelligence Office

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameBurr, William Henry

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1849

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions22 x 27 in.

LocationNew-York Historical Society

https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/7246/the-intelligence-office

Accession number1959.46

The Intelligence Office

The Breakwater, Cullercoats

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1882

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on ivory wove paper

Dimensions13 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. (33.6 x 50.2 cm)

LocationPortland Museum of Art, Maine

http://collections.portlandmuseum.org/Obj11271

Accession number1988.55.16

The Breakwater, Cullercoats

A Game of Croquet

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1866

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions23 3/4 x 34 5/8 in. (60.3 x 87.9 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52516

Accession number1961.18.25

A Game of Croquet

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, female artist at right

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, female...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, female artist at right

List of Commissions

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1828–1832

Object typeLetter

LocationLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC

https://www.loc.gov/resource/mmorse.010001/?sp=194

Accession numberMSS33670: box 10, folder 001

List of Commissions

Salutat

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 29

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1898

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions50 1/8 x 40 in. (127.3 x 101.6 cm)

LocationPhillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

http://accessaddison.andover.edu/Obj1024

Accession number1930.18

Salutat

View of Jerusalem

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameFairman, James

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions32 × 44 in.

LocationMathaf Gallery, London, UK

View of Jerusalem

Blown Away

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1888

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite, on thick, rough-textured, off-white wove paper

Dimensions10 1/8 x 19 in. (25.7 x 48.4 cm)

LocationBrooklyn Museum of Art

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/5611

Accession number11.543

Blown Away

Shark Fishing

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1885

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions13 5/8 x 20 in. (34.6 x 50.8 cm)

LocationPrivate Collection

Shark Fishing

The Pines and the Olives ("The Monk")

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameInness, George, Sr.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1873

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions38 9/16 in. × 64 1/8 in. (98 cm × 162.9 cm)

LocationAddison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

http://accessaddison.andover.edu/Obj4098

Accession number1956.6

The Pines and the Olives ("The Monk")

Chrysanthemums

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 24

Creator nameBunker, Dennis Miller

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1888

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/10814

Accession numberP3w5

Chrysanthemums

Interior of Fort Laramie

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1837

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, gouache, glazes, and graphite on paper

Dimensions10 3/4 × 14 1/2 in. (27.3 × 36.8 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/021067

Accession number02.1067

Interior of Fort Laramie

International Indian Council (Held at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, 1843)

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 31

Creator nameStanley, John Mix

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1843

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions31 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. (80 x 102.9 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=22854

Accession number1985.66.248,934B

International Indian Council (Held at...

International Indian Council (Held at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, 1843)

Mrs. McCormick's General Store

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameBrowere, Albertus Del Orient

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1844

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions20 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.

LocationFenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York

https://collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2005/mrs-mccormicks-general-store

Accession numberN0387.1955

Mrs. McCormick's General Store

Ad for the exhibition of Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1833

Object typeLetter

Ad for the exhibition of Gallery of the...

Ad for the exhibition of Gallery of the Louvre

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the Picture of the Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1833

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the...

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the Picture of the Gallery of the Louvre

Home, Sweet Home, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1863

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.79933.html

Accession number1997.72.1

Home, Sweet Home, detail

Offering the Panal to the Toreador

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameCassatt, Mary

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1873

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions39 5/8 × 33 1/2 in. (101.2 × 85.1 cm)

LocationClark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

http://clarkart.edu/Collection/7199

Accession number1955.1

Offering the Panal to the Toreador

Landing of Columbus

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameVanderlyn, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1840

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions26 1/2 × 39 3/4 in.

LocationNational Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=25554

Accession number1971.5

Landing of Columbus

Description: The Emperor Commodus, Dressed as Hercules, Leaves the Colosseum at the Head of the...

The Emperor Commodus, Dressed as Hercules, Leaves the Colosseum at the Head of the Gladiators

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameBlashfield, Edwin Howland

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions44 1/2 × 91 in.

LocationHermitage Museum and Gardens, Norfolk, Virginia

The Emperor Commodus, Dressed as...

The Emperor Commodus, Dressed as Hercules, Leaves the Colosseum at the Head of the Gladiators

The Two Guides

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 30

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1875

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 1/4 x 38 1/4 in.

LocationClark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

http://www.clarkart.edu/Collection/3107

Accession number1955.3

The Two Guides

West Rock, New Haven

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1849

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions26 1/2 × 40 in.

LocationNew Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

http://www.nbmaa.org/original-site-assets/timeline_highlights/essays/church.html

Accession number1950.10.

West Rock, New Haven

Jonah

Posted by:John Carlson

May 19

Creator nameRyder, Albert Pinkham

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1885–1895

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas mounted on fiberboard

Dimensions69.2 × 87.3 cm

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/jonah-21449

Accession number1929.6.98

Jonah

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1870

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions54 1/4 × 84 3/8 in.

LocationNelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/9537/jerusalem-from-the-mount-of-olives

Accession numberF77-40/1

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameOertel, Johannes Adam Simon

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1853

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions32 × 41 3/10 in. (81.3 × 104.8 cm)

LocationNew-York Historical Society

https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/3909/pulling-down-the-statue-of-king-george-iii-new-york-city

Accession number1925.6

Pulling Down the Statue of King George...

Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City

Waking Up

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameClonney, James Goodwyn

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1851

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions27 x 22 in.

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/waking-up-33061

Accession number47.1189

Waking Up

The Peaceable Kingdom

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameHicks, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1829–1830

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions17 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (44.5 x 59.7 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/15323

Accession number1965.46.2

The Peaceable Kingdom

El Jaleo

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameSargent, John Singer

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1882

Object typePainting

Materialsoil on canvas

Dimensions93 1/2 × 138 1/2 in. (237 × 352 cm)

LocationIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/13259

El Jaleo

Description: View of the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation Gallery of American Art before...

View of the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation Gallery of American Art before 1900

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 11

Creator rolePhotographer

Object typePhotograph

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

View of the Richard and Jane Manoogian...

View of the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation Gallery of American Art before 1900

Singing a Pathetic Song

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 10

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1881

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions45 × 32 1/4 in. (114.3 × 82.6 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Corcoran Collection)

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166446.html

Accession number2014.79.19

Singing a Pathetic Song

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the Picture of the Gallery of the Louvre

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1833

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the...

Catalogue of the Pictures Copied in the Picture of the Gallery of the Louvre

West Point, Prout's Neck

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1900

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 1/8 x 48 1/8 in. (76.4 x 122.2 cm)

LocationClark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

http://www.clarkart.edu/Collection/3100

Accession number1955.7

West Point, Prout's Neck

Italian Landscape

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameInness, George, Sr.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions26 3/4 × 42 5/8 in. (67.9 × 108.3 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts Boston

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/italian-landscape-32656

Accession number38.1417

Italian Landscape

Giving Drink to a Thirsty Trapper

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1837-1838

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions8 1/16 × 7 5/16 in. (20.5 × 18.5 )

LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut

http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3432115

Accession number2001474

Giving Drink to a Thirsty Trapper

The Belated Kid

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 24

Creator nameHunt, William Morris

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1854–1857

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31308/the-belated-kid

Accession number07.135

The Belated Kid

Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1875

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions96 x 78 in. (243.8 x 198.1 cm)

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/299524?

Accession number2007-1-1

Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The...

The Gross Clinic

The Champion Single Sculls, detail with Max Schitt in Josie

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 29

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1871

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10819

Accession number34.92

The Champion Single Sculls, detail with...

The Champion Single Sculls, detail with Max Schitt in Josie

The Sponge Diver

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1898–1899

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately rough, cream wove paper

Dimensions15 x 21 3/8 in. (38 x 54.3 cm)

LocationMusem of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-sponge-diver-251523

Accession number39.621

The Sponge Diver

Sioux Indian Council

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameEastman, Seth

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1848

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions6 × 8 1/2 in. (15.2 × 21.6 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/02261384

Accession number0226.1384

Sioux Indian Council

Self-Portrait

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameKellogg, Miner Kilbourne

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions29 1/8 × 23 1/8 in.

LocationCincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=17985681

Self-Portrait

Dead Man Restored to Life by Touching the Bones of the Prophet Elisha

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameAllston, Washington

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1811–1813

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions156 × 122 in. (396.2 × 309.9 cm)

LocationPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/dead-man-restored-life-touching-bones-prophet-elisha

Accession number1816.1

Dead Man Restored to Life by Touching...

Dead Man Restored to Life by Touching the Bones of the Prophet Elisha

Anti-Lebanon

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1869

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions21 1/2 × 36 in.

Anti-Lebanon

Fresh Air

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, with opaque white highlights, over charcoal on cream, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper

Dimensions20 1/8 x 14 in. (51 x 35.6 cm)

LocationBrooklyn Museum

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2806

Accession number41.1087

Fresh Air

Early Morning after a Storm at Sea

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1900–1903

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 1/4 x 50 in. (76.8 x 127 cm)

LocationCleveland Museum of Art

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1924.195

Accession number1924.195

Early Morning after a Storm at Sea

The Cock Fight

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1885

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent and opaque watercolor, with traces of scraping, over graphite, on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper (top and lower edges trimmed)

Dimensions10 3/8 x 19 in. (26.5 x 48.4 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/99603

Accession number1982.1579

The Cock Fight

Home, Sweet Home

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1863

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions21 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (54.6 x 41.9 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.79933.html

Accession number1997.72.1

Home, Sweet Home

Still Life—Five Dollar Bill

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 12

Creator nameHarnett, William Michael

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions8 × 12 1/8 (20.3 × 30.8 cm)

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/48522.html?mulR=2126559004|2

Accession number1943-74-5

Still Life—Five Dollar Bill

Undertow

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 30

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1886

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions29 13/16 x 47 5/8 in. (75.7 x 121 cm)

LocationClark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

http://www.clarkart.edu/Collection/2823

Accession number1955.4

Undertow

Symphony in White and Red

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 07

Creator nameWhistler, James McNeill

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1868

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on millboard mounted on wood panel

LocationFreer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

https://asia.si.edu/object/F1903.177a-b/

Accession numberF1903.177a-b

Symphony in White and Red

Jesus in the Upper Room

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameLandis, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1836

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions13 7/8 × 19 in.

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pensyllvania

https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/54258.html?mulR=1272303251|2

Accession number1953-125-20

Jesus in the Upper Room

The Gun Foundry

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameWeir, John Ferguson

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1866

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions46 1/2 × 62 in. (118.1 × 157.4 cm)

LocationPutnam History Museum, Cold Spring, New York

The Gun Foundry

What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameRemington, Frederic

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1895

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/24069

Accession number1977.114

What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost, detail

Syria–Ruins by the Sea

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1873–1874

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions10 1/2 × 18 in.

LocationReading Public Museum, West Reading, Pennsylvania

http://collection.readingpublicmuseum.org/objects/643/syria-ruins-by-the-sea?ctx=d6bc08cf-82a6-48e1-ab26-c5c00fbaa61b&idx=0

Accession number1922.157.1

Syria–Ruins by the Sea

Group of a Mountaineer and Kansas Indian

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1858–1860

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor heightened with white on paper

Dimensions9 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (24.1 × 21.6 cm)

LocationWalters Art Museum, Baltimore

Accession number37.1940.42

Group of a Mountaineer and Kansas Indian

The Cock Fight, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1885

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent and opaque watercolor, with traces of scraping, over graphite, on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/99603

Accession number1982.1579

The Cock Fight, detail

Graves of Travellers, Fort Kearny, Nebraska

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameWhittredge, Worthington

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1865

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions7 5/16 × 23 13/16 in.

LocationCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1969.19

Accession number1969.19

Graves of Travellers, Fort Kearny,...

Graves of Travellers, Fort Kearny, Nebraska

Black Vultures

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 29

Creator nameAudubon, John James

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1829

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationJohn James Audubon Museum, Henderson, Kentucky

Black Vultures

Girl with Red Stockings (The Wreck)

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1882

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite, on very thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions13 3/8 x 19 1/2 in. (34.2 x 49.5 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/girl-with-red-stockings-252827

Accession number48.727

Girl with Red Stockings (The Wreck)

Eros et Musa

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameWalker, Henry Oliver

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1903

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions72 1/8 × 54 1/8 in. (183.3 × 137.4 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/eros-et-musa-26616

Accession number1909.7.69

Eros et Musa

Asher B. Durand

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 18

Creator nameTrumbull, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Dimensions25 1/4 x 20 3/4 in. (64.1 x 52.7 cm)

LocationNew-York Historical Society

https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/18909/asher-b-durand-17961886

Accession number1895.13

Asher B. Durand

Last of Their Race

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameStanley, John Mix

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1857

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions43 × 60 in. (109.2 × 152.4 cm)

LocationBuffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

Accession number5.75

Last of Their Race

The Sea of Tiberias

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameTroye, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1856

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions44 × 66 in.

LocationBethany College, Bethany, West Virginia

The Sea of Tiberias

San Fernando Mission

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator namePeters, Charles Rollo

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 x 15 3/4 in. (61 x 40.1 cm)

LocationCrocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

https://www.crockerart.org/collections/american-art-before-1945/artworks/san-fernando-mission-nd

Accession number1962.23

San Fernando Mission

Anatomical Lecture by Dr. William Williams Keen

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameStephens, Charles H.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1879

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on cardboard (grisaille)

Dimensions8 5/8 x 11 in.

LocationPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

https://www.pafa.org/collection/anatomical-lecture-dr-william-williams-keen-illustration-william-c-brownell-art-schools

Accession number1879.6

Anatomical Lecture by Dr. William...

Anatomical Lecture by Dr. William Williams Keen

Italian Shepherd Boy

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameAllston, Washington

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1819

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions46 7/8 × 33 9/16 in. (119 × 85.3 cm)

LocationBrooklyn Museum

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/989

Accession number49.97

Italian Shepherd Boy

Penn's Treaty with the Indians

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameWest, Benjamin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1771–1772

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions75 1/2 x 107 3/4 in. (191.8 x 273.7 cm)

LocationPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

https://www.pafa.org/collection/penns-treaty-indians

Accession number1878.1.10

Penn's Treaty with the Indians

The Storming of the Teocalli by Cortés and His Troops

Posted by:John Carlson

May 19

Creator nameLeutze, Emanuel Gottlieb

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1848

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

Accession number1985.7

The Storming of the Teocalli by...

The Storming of the Teocalli by Cortés and His Troops

Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1901

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 1/2 x 50 1/2 in. (77.5 x 128.3 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11136

Accession number6.1282

Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago...

Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba

For to Be a Farmer's Boy

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1887

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent and opaque watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, heightened with gum glaze, over graphite, on thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper (lower edge trimmed)

Dimensions14 x 20 in. (35.5 x 50.9 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/93433

Accession number1963.760

For to Be a Farmer's Boy

Portrait Study (Woman in a Black Bonnet)

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 10

Creator nameChase, William Merritt

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

LocationCollection of Erving and Joyce Wolf

Portrait Study (Woman in a Black Bonnet)

Huntsman and Dogs

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1891

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions28 1/8 x 48 in. (71.4 x 121.9 cm)

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/102943.html

Accession numberE1924-3-8

Huntsman and Dogs

Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameMayr, Christian Friedrich

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1838

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 x 29 1/2 in.

LocationNorth Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

http://www.artnc.org/works-of-art/kitchen-ball-white-sulphur-springs-virginia

Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs,...

Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia

Roman Campagna

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameInness, George, Sr.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1858

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)

LocationNew Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

http://ink.nbmaa.org:8080/emuseum/objects/225/roman-campagna

Accession number1947.08

Roman Campagna

Montagnais Indians (Indians Making Canoes)

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1895

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite, on paper

Dimensions14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm)

LocationThe Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

Accession number83.8.24

Montagnais Indians (Indians Making...

Montagnais Indians (Indians Making Canoes)

Santa Maria La Blanca, Toledo

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 25

Creator nameSargent, John Singer

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1879

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions13 3/4 × 10 1/4 in. (34.9 × 26 cm)

LocationPrivate collection

Santa Maria La Blanca, Toledo

William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1876–1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions20 1/8 x 26 1/8 in. (51.1 x 66.4 cm)

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/42507?

Accession number1929-184-27

William Rush Carving His Allegorical...

William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River

Fifth Avenue in Winter

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 09

Creator nameHassam, Childe

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1892

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions22 × 28 in. (55.88 × 71.12 cm)

LocationCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/0ad448ac-b58f-4440-a1f4-8eae9a58a8d2

Accession number00.2

Fifth Avenue in Winter

Two Boys Watching Schooners, seen under ultraviolet light

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator rolePhotographer

Object typePhotograph

Two Boys Watching Schooners, seen under...

Two Boys Watching Schooners, seen under ultraviolet light

Inside the Bar

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1883

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper

Dimensions16 x 29 in. (40.6 x 73.7 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11125

Accession number54.183

Inside the Bar

The Purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians by the Dutch, in 1626

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 07

Creator nameRanney, William Tylee

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1853

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions106.7 × 167.6 cm (42 × 66 in.)

LocationPrivate Collection

The Purchase of Manhattan Island from...

The Purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians by the Dutch, in 1626

The Last Moments of John Brown

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 24

Creator nameHovenden, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1882–1884

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions77 3/8 × 66 1/4 in. (196.5 × 168.3 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11160

Accession number97.5

The Last Moments of John Brown

The Agnew Clinic

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 13

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions84 3/8 x 9 ft. 10 1/8 in. (214.5 x 300 cm)

LocationUniversity of Pennsylvania Art Collection, Philadelphia

http://artcollection.upenn.edu/collection/art/10/the-agnew-clinic/

Accession number1889.0001

The Agnew Clinic

The Death Struggle

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameDeas, Charles

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1845

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions30 × 25 in.

LocationShelburne Museum, Vermont

The Death Struggle

Alpine Landscape with River

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameFairman, James

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1871

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions32 1/2 × 45 1/8 in.

LocationSchwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Alpine Landscape with River

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameChurch, Frederic Edwin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1870

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationNelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/9537/jerusalem-from-the-mount-of-olives

Accession numberF77-40/1

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives,...

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, detail

Study for The House of Representatives

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1821

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions8 1/4 × 13 3/4 in. (20.9 × 35 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/study-house-representatives-17949

Accession number1978.166

Study for The House of Representatives

Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator nameVanderlyn, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1832

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on wood panel

Dimensions32 × 25 3/8 in.

LocationAlbany Institute of History and Art

http://www.albanyinstitute.org/details/items/marius-amid-the-ruins-of-carthage.html

Accession number1946.81

Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage

Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage

Key to the Pictures

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleIllustrator

Creation date1833

Object typeIllustration

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Key to the Pictures

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, artist's initials on back

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 13

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1831–1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions73 3/4 × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/243/gallery-of-the-louvre

Accession number1992.51

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, artist's...

Gallery of the Louvre, detail, artist's initials on back

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