Collection Highlights
Contraband Camp -- Harper's Ferry, VA
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.065.815.7
Medium:
Stereograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
View from Cozzen's Hotel Near West Point, N.Y.
Object Number:
S-189
Date:
1863
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 34 in. ( 50.8 x 86.4 cm )
Frame: 31 1/2 x 45 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 80 x 115.6 x 8.9 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: BC: JFK '63
Bibliography:
New York State Council on the Arts, Art in New York State: The River: Places and People, Buffalo: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1964, n.p.
American Luminism: A Benefit for The Lighthouse, the New York Association for the Blind, New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, 1978, n.p.
Wilmerding, John, Ed., American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875, Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1980, pp. 39-40, 98, 114, 222, 261-2.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 242.
American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, pp. 154-5.
McCoubrey, John, American Tradition in Painting, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, n.p.
Trafton, Melissa Geisler, Critics, Collectors, and the Nineteenth-Century Taste for the Paintings of John Frederick Kensett, A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2003, pp. 299, 431-2, 455.
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Provenance:
Robert L. Stuart, N.Y.C. (painted to order)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
