William Trost Richards: The History of a Reputation

Speaker: 
Linda S. Ferber
Wed, 06/05/2013 - 6:30pm

Event Details

Richards's career spanned the second half of the nineteenth century and the first five years of the twentieth. During these turbulent yet productive years, he created some of the most important and beautiful paintings in the history of American art. From 1854 through the 1860s, Richards concentrated upon landscapes of Pennsylvania and New York, earning his early reputation as a painter equally adept in the styles of the mainstream Hudson River School and the reformist American Pre-Raphaelites.

From Colony to Nation: 200 Years of American Painting at the New-York Historical Society

Jun 7 2013 - Sep 8 2013

This exhibition of American art, drawn from the New-York Historical Society's venerable collections, presents a chronological and thematic survey of masterworks ranging in date from 1720 to 1917. Included are Colonial, Federal, and Gilded Age portraits; Hudson River School landscapes; marine and maritime paintings, with a focus on works inspired by the War of 1812; and genre, history, and narrative subjects.

Thomas Buttersworth (English, 1758-1842), Escape of H.M.S. Belvidera from the U.S. Frigate President, ca. 1815, Oil on canvas, 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm), Bequest of Irving S. Olds, 1963.58

Woven throughout the installation are a medley of artist portraits that traces American masters from Benjamin West’s London studio to the mid-nineteenth century ateliers of New York. Highlights include works by Gerardus Duyckinck, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, Benjamin West, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Birch, Thomas Buttersworth, William Sidney Mount, John F. Kensett, John Singer Sargent and Childe Hassam.

World War II and New York: Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan

Speaker: 
Cal Snyder
Lucy Oakley
Sun, 06/02/2013 - 11:00am

Note: This event is sold out

 

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From Battery Park to the Army Ocean Terminal, New York Harbor vividly records the city’s role in WWII. Join us to hear the story of the harbor and its people in wartime and explore how New York City remembers those who fought to protect the free world. Walking tours are limited to 35 guests per tour. Please buy tickets in advance.

Princess Elizabeth in the Tower

Title
Princess Elizabeth in the Tower
Date 
1860
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Medium 
Oil on canvas
Credit Line 
New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection
Object Number 
S-187
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Thomas Cole's First Studio, Catskill, NY

Title
Thomas Cole's First Studio, Catskill, NY
Date 
1881
Related People 
Artist/Maker: John Mackie Falconer
Medium 
Oil on academy board
Dimensions 
Overall: 8 x 12 in. ( 20.3 x 30.5 cm )frame: 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 1 in. (26.7 x 36.8 x 2.5 cm)
Credit Line 
Gift of an Anonymous Donor
Object Number 
1947.421
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Rondout from Kingston, N.Y.

Title
Rondout from Kingston, N.Y.
Date 
ca. 1870
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Joseph Tubby
Medium 
Oil on canvas laid on artboard
Dimensions 
Overall: 11 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. ( 28.6 x 38.7 cm )
Credit Line 
Gift of Gertrude O. Tubby
Object Number 
1951.352
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Landscape with River, Figures

Title
Landscape with River, Figures
Date 
1891
Related People 
Artist/Maker: William Rickarby Miller
Medium 
Oil on academy board
Dimensions 
Overall: 5 x 7 in. ( 12.7 x 17.8 cm )
Credit Line 
Purchase, James Hazen Hyde Fund
Object Number 
1949.275
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Forcing The Hudson River Passage

Title
Forcing The Hudson River Passage
Date 
n.d.
Related People 
Artist/Maker: William Joy
Medium 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 
Overall: 28 1/2 x 46 1/4 in. (72.4 x 117.5 cm)Framed (approx.): 35 x 52 1/2 in. (88.9 x 133.4 cm)
Credit Line 
Gift of the Travelers Insurance Company
Object Number 
1951.69
Gallery Label 
The painting depicts the campaign of 1776 featuring the "Tartar," "Roebuck," and "Phoenix" - all under Briish command - which are under fire from Fort Washington and Fort Constitution (what we today call Fort Lee). This painting is a copy of a copy which self-taught British artist William Joy executed after a painting by English naval artist Dominic Serres. Actually, Serres himself made three versions of the scene, one for the captain of each frigate. The painting presented to Parker was formerly in the collection of J.P. Morgan; the painting given to Ommaney, signed and dated 1779, is now in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum in Delaware; and the painting owned by Hammond, signed and dated in 1779, is now in the United States Naval Academy Museum at Annapolis.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Study for "June"

Title
Study for "June"
Date 
ca. 1870
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Asher Brown Durand
Medium 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 
Overall: 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. ( 57.2 x 47 cm )
Credit Line 
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number 
1932.32
Gallery Label 
The Society's study is for the finished landscape, privately owned in 1978.
Bibliography 
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 188. Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 359.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

The Day Line: Holiday on The Hudson

Jul 1 2005 - Oct 16 2005

The Hudson River Day Line was the favorite way for New Yorkers to travel between Albany and New York City for a day in the country for more than 80 years. The exhibit highlights the Library's collection of photographs, advertising mockups, schedules, guidebooks, menus and other ephemera relating to the Hudson River Day Line, principally between 1890 and 1948.

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