The Newark Museum
Newark, NJ
973-596-6550
http://www.newarkmuseum.org
Treasures of 19th-Century American Art
September 6 - December 3, 2000
This exquisite collection show of paintings and sculptures features
eleven outstanding examples of landscape, portraiture, still life, genre
and marine paintings - from Winslow Homer's powerful commentary on slavery,
Near Andersonville, to Fitz Hugh Lane's idyllic interpretation of
America's nascent industry, The Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester.
Paintings by the Hudson River School are highlighted with masterpieces such
as Asher B. Durand's Landscape, a vision of the American wilderness
as a New Eden, and Thomas Cole's beautiful Italian pastoral, The Arch
of Nero. (left: Martin Johnson Heade, Cattleya Orchid with
Two Hummingbirds, ca. 1880, oil on canvas, Purchase 1965 The Members'
Fund, 65.118)
Left to right: Winslow Homer, Near Andersonville, 1865-66, oil
on canvas, Gift of Mrs. Hannah Corbin Carter; Horace K. Corbin, Jr.; Robert
S. Corbin; William D. Corbin; and Mrs. Clementine Corbin Day in memory of
their parents, Hannah Stockton Corbin and Horace Kellogg Corbin 1966, 66.354;
Ralph Earl, Portrait of Mrs. Nathaniel Taylor, ca. 1789-90, oil
on canvas, Purchase 1947 Sophronia Anderson Bequest Fund 47.51; Asher
B. Durand, Landscape, 1849, oil on canvas, Purchase 1956 Wallace
M. Scudder Bequest Fund, 56.181; Thomas Sully, Portrait of John
Clements Stocker, 1814, oil on canvas. Purchase 1956, The Members' Fund,
56.42; Thomas Cole, The Arch of Nero, 1846,. oil on canvas,
Purchase 1957 Sophronia Anderson Bequest Fund 57.24
The exhibition also includes works by Jasper F. Cropsey,
Ralph Earl, Martin Johnson Heade, Thomas Sully, Albert Bierstadt, Hiram
Powers and William Couper.
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cited above please see America's Distinguished
Artists, a national registry of historic artists.
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This exquisite collection show of paintings and sculptures features
eleven outstanding examples of landscape, portraiture, still life, genre
and marine paintings - from Winslow Homer's powerful commentary on slavery,
Near Andersonville, to Fitz Hugh Lane's idyllic interpretation of
America's nascent industry, The Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester.
Paintings by the Hudson River School are highlighted with masterpieces such
as Asher B. Durand's Landscape, a vision of the American wilderness
as a New Eden, and Thomas Cole's beautiful Italian pastoral, The Arch
of Nero. (left: Martin Johnson Heade, Cattleya Orchid with
Two Hummingbirds, ca. 1880, oil on canvas, Purchase 1965 The Members'
Fund, 65.118)
