The Cotters Saturday Night

c. 1815

Eunice Pinney

Associated Names
Eunice Pinney

Artist, American, 1770 - 1849

The image shows a group of people sitting indoors at a wooden table in an L-shape. They vary in age and appearance. On the left, a woman in a bonnet and shawl sits next to a man in a blue jacket. Next to them, a woman in a yellow and white dress holds a book. A young boy with a red jacket and two young girls focus on an older man at the head of the table. The older man reads from a large book in front of a lit candle. The room has wooden beams, shelves with crockery, birds on rafters, and a cat on the floor.

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G27

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1974

  • The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1974, no. 115, repro. (cat. by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester).

Bibliography

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculptures, Drawings, Prints. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974:218.

  • Lipman, Jean, and Alice Winchester. The Flowering of American Folk Art. New York, 1974: p.80, fig.115.

Inscriptions

lower center: THE COTTERS SATURDAY NIGHT

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Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q64560782

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