Collection Highlights
Portrait of a Heroic Fireman
ca. 1857
1937.328
Polychrome painted and carved wood
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Chapel Pond Brook, Adirondack Mts., N.Y.
Title
Chapel Pond Brook, Adirondack Mts., N.Y.
Date
ca. 1870
Medium
oil on linen
Dimensions
Overall: 17 x 24 in. (43.2 x 61 cm)
frame: 24 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. ( 62.2 x 80 x 7.9 cm )
Credit Line
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number
1918.22
Marks
Stencils on stretcher: "520", "686D"; pencil inscription on canvas reverse: "A.B.D. / Illegible
Bibliography
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887, p. 23, no. 324.
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. 358-9.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
