William Cullen Bryant
c. 1854
Painter, American, 1812 - 1868
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 61.6 × 51.12 cm (24 1/4 × 20 1/8 in.)
framed: 79.38 × 69.22 × 7.62 cm (31 1/4 × 27 1/4 × 3 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.120
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Rufus W. Griswold [1815-1857], in 1854.[1] James C. McGuire [1812-1888], Washington;[2] bequest September 1888 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Griswold lent the painting to an exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1854; he was an anthologist, editor, poet, and critic.
[2] McGuire, a major collector, was one of the original trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1854
National Academy of Design, New York, 1854, no. 299.
1857
First Annual Exhibition of the Washington Art Association, 1857, no. 79.
1976
The Realist Tradition in American Painting, South Texas Artmobile, August 1976 - May 1977.
1979
Romantic America: The Middle Decades of the 19th Century, The Tampa Museum, 15 September - 26 November 1979, no. 46, repro.
Bibliography
1966
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 79-80, repro.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 296, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: Elliot / 185[4?]
Wikidata ID
Q46628433