1950.50.M Thomas Moran, An Indian Paradise (Green River, Wyoming)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Green River area in Wyoming was a site dear to Thomas Moran's heart. He painted this subject nearly forty times after he first encountered it in 1871 on an illustration commission for "Scribner's" magazine.
1961.11 Winslow Homer, Casting in the Falls
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Winslow Homer was an avid fisherman, and, with his brother Charles, he spent many summers in the Adirondacks.
1971.72 Albert Bierstadt, The Matterhorn
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The jagged, snow-capped peak of the Swiss mountain the Matterhorn grandly looming over a valley of finely detailed pine trees is characteristic of the widely popular landscapes by Albert Bierstadt. The artist executed this scene while spending two years enjoying celebrity in Europe.
1955.21 Alfred Jacob Miller, The Lake Her Lone Bosom Expands to the Sky
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The 19th-century preoccupation with nature and the American scene can be seen in the works of Alfred Jacob Miller, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Moran, painters of the West, all of whom were fascinated by the American frontier.
1967.3 Samuel Lovett Waldo and WIlliam Jewett, William Elliott
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This boldly painted portrait is characteristic of the vigorous style of the forty-year artistic partnership of Samuel Lovett Waldo and William Jewett. After training at the Royal Academy in London from 1806 to 1809, Waldo returned to the US and began a successful career as a portraitist and cultural figure in New York.
1973.5 Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
During the last thirty years of his life, the Quaker sign painter–turned–painter Edward Hicks created more than one hundred versions of this subject, an allegory of spiritual and earthly harmony based on Isaiah II: 6-9: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie d
1987.41 Peale, George Washington
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The then seventeen-year-old artist Rembrandt Peale painted George Washington (1732-1799) from life for three days in 1795. The opportunity came thanks to his father, artist Charles Willson Peale, who had befriended the president and completed several acclaimed portraits of Washington as a general. As Rembrandt Peale remembered later about the seven a.m.
1988.B.69, Side chair, Philadelphia (?), 1735-1760
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Made of maple with a heavy ball stretcher in front, rush seat, and a careful gradation of back slats, this side chair is a particularly well-preserved example of a popular type.
1985.B.62, Windsor settee, Philadelphia, 1770-1785
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Ten-legged Windsor settees are uncommon enough to attract special attention. Spindles repeated in the back of this atypical object create rhythm, while the well-proportioned turnings and carved arm rests promote harmony and balance.