Elihu Root (1845-1937)

Title
Elihu Root (1845-1937)
Date 
ca. 1930
Related People 
Artist/Maker: John C. Johansen
Medium 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 
Overall: 24 x 20 in. ( 61 x 50.8 cm )
Credit Line 
Gift of the artist
Object Number 
1959.47
Marks 
signature: lower left: "John C. Johansen"
Gallery Label 
Statesman and diplomant Elihu Root was born in Clinton, New York, where his father, Oren Root, was a professor at Hamilton College. Root, a graduate of New York University Law School, held numerous appointments and political offices, including that of secretary of state under Theodore Roosevelt. For his support of the principles of international law, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912.
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Henry W. Peck

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Artist/Maker: Unidentified Artist
Related People 
Depicted: Henry W. Peck
Title
Henry W. Peck
Medium 
oil on linen
Dimensions 
Overall: 30 x 26 x 1 in. ( 76.2 x 66 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number 
1974.35
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Capture of H.B.M. Sloop 'Frolic' by U.S. Sloop of War 'Wasp'

Title
Capture of H.B.M. Sloop 'Frolic' by U.S. Sloop of War 'Wasp'
Date 
19th century
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Francis Kearney
Medium 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 
Overall: 25 x 30 1/4 in. ( 63.5 x 76.8 cm )
Credit Line 
Gift of Henry O. Havemeyer
Object Number 
1977.87
Gallery Label 
An ink drawing of this encounter by Kearney was exhibited at Philadelphia in July 1813.
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John Burroughs (1837-1921)

Title
John Burroughs (1837-1921)
Date 
n.d.
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Dora Wheeler Keith
Medium 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 
Overall: 26 x 19 in. ( 66 x 48.3 cm )
Credit Line 
Purchase
Object Number 
1956.33
Gallery Label 
The subject of this portrait was a well-known naturalist and writer whose first book, "Notes on Walt Whitman As Poet and Person," appeared in 1867. From 1874 until his death Burroughs traveled and lived in rural retreats in the Catskills, where he devoted much of his time to poetry and the study of nature. This portrait was probably painted from life in the Catskills, for Burroughs was a good friend of the Wheeler family and a frequent visitor at their home in Onteora.
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Claude Gallatin

Related People 
Artist/Maker: Mrs. Pike-Keller
Title
Claude Gallatin
Medium 
oil on linen
Dimensions 
Overall: 15 x 11 x 1 in. ( 38.1 x 27.9 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number 
1952.362
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Historical Fictions: Edward Lamson Henry’s Paintings of Past and Present

Apr 4 2006 - Aug 6 2006

The exhibition, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, explores how Edward Lamson Henry's (1841-1919) fascination with "historical fictions"

Edward Lamson Henry (1841-1919), Capital and Labor, 1881. Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, Gift of George A. Zabriskie, 1940.5

The Armory Show at 100

Oct 11 2013 - Feb 23 2014

This exhibition will revisit the famous 1913 New York Armory Show on its 100th anniversary. The original exhibition, organized by a small group of American artists and presented at the Lexington Avenue Armory, introduced the American public to European avant-garde painting and sculpture. The public sensation and the polemical critical responses to the show represented a watershed in the history of American art. The exhibition included works by such well-known European modernists as Paul Cezanne, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin, as well as leaders of American art such as Robert Henri, Albert Pinkham Ryder and Childe Hassam, along with the early work by such budding modernists as Charles Sheeler, Marsden Hartley and Stuart Davis.

Marcel Duchamp, (French, 1887-1968), Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), 1912. Oil on canvas, 57 7/8 x 35 1/8 in. Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950, 1950-134-59 © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/Succession Marcel Duchamp. Reproduction, including downloading this work, is prohibited by copyright law without written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

The New-York Historical Society's exhibition reasesses the Armory Show with a carefully chosen group of approximately seventy-five works. The exhibition includes American and European paintings and sculpture that will represent the scandalous avant-garde and the range of early twentieth-century American art. It will also include historical works (dating through the nineteenth century) that the original organizers gathered in an effort to show the progression of modern art leading up to the controversial abstract works that have become the Armory Show’s hallmark.

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