Museum Collections
Luce Center
Woman Milking a Cow
Title
Woman Milking a Cow
Date
1836
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
Overall: 7 3/4 x 11 1/2 x 1/2 in. ( 19.7 x 29.2 x 1.3 cm )
Credit Line
Gift of Elinor M. Parker
Object Number
1959.118
Gallery Label
Donor is Luman Reed's great-great-granddaughter. Identified as Luman Reed door panel by Timothy A. Burgard, 1991.
Bibliography
Noble, Louis Legrand, The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, Hensonville, New York: Black Dome Press, 1964, pp. 155-65.
Parry, Elwood, Thomas Cole's "The Course of Empire": A Study in Serial Imagery, PhD Dissertation, Yale, 1970, pp. 70-3.
Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, pp. 68, 188-92. 620.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 8-10.
Frankenstein, Alfred, William Sidney Mount, New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975, pp. 69-70.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 304-6, 402-4.
Tufts, Eleanor, "Realism Revisited: Goya's Impact on George Bellows and other American Responses to the Spanish Presence in Art," Arts, No. 57, February 1983, PP. 105-13.
Foshay, Ella M., Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: Pioneer Collection of American Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pp. 38-9, 67-9, 205-6.
Burgard, Timothy Anglin, "New Discoveries in American Art," American Art Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1991, pp. 70-4.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.




