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James Parmelee

American, 1855 - 1931

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Robert Ingersoll Aitken, Naiad, n.d., bronze, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2015.19.3675

Naiad

Robert Ingersoll Aitken · n.d. · bronze ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3675

Paul Manship, Flight of Night, 1918, bronze, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2014.136.252

Flight of Night

Paul Manship · 1918 · bronze ·  Accession ID  2014.136.252

We look slightly down onto and across a wide, boat-filled river under a cloudy sky at the far bank, which is lined with buildings, in this loosely painted, horizontal landscape. Four long, wooden boats are pulled up side-by-side to our right, so most of their prows are cropped by the right edge of the composition. Their amber-brown sails are tied up to the vertical masts and angled spars, which create a row of diagonal lines jutting into the painting from the right edge. The boats’ sterns are painted moss green, and the boat farthest from us has what could be a small dingy tethered off the back end. Several ghostly men and women stand below us, in the lower right corner, on a pecan-brown walkway low to the water. We can see through the people so the details are indistinct, but they all seem to look away from us except one person who looks our way, indicated with a touch of peach for a face. They wear long gowns and jackets or baggy shirts and trousers in tones of plum purple, caramel brown, light blue, or charcoal gray. In the middle of the river, a long, thin boat with a narrow, scarlet-red sail has drifted past them toward the left side of the composition. Two long strokes of cranberry red suggest more vessels on the water closer to the opposite shore. Low buildings painted in fawn and coffee brown, cherry red, cream, and tan line the far bank. The buildings become indistinct and fainter as they angle away from us into the distance. Bands of off-white clouds, some frothy and some wispy, fill the upper half of the painting. The sky is otherwise washed with violet purple, slate gray, and aquamarine blue. The river’s surface is smeared with the reflections of the sky, buildings, and boats.
James McNeill Whistler, Battersea Reach, c. 1863, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2014.79.35

Battersea Reach

James McNeill Whistler · c. 1863 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.79.35

Janet Scudder, Shell Girl, c. 1910, bronze, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2015.19.3687

Shell Girl

Janet Scudder · c. 1910 · bronze ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3687

Robert Ingersoll Aitken, Dancing Faun (Bacchante), n.d., bronze, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2015.19.3676

Dancing Faun (Bacchante)

Robert Ingersoll Aitken · n.d. · bronze ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3676

Childe Hassam, The Bridge at Grez [verso], 1904, watercolor and graphite on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2015.19.505.b

The Bridge at Grez [verso]

Childe Hassam · 1904 · watercolor and graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.505.b

Childe Hassam, The Bridge at Grez [recto], 1904, watercolor on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2015.19.505.a

The Bridge at Grez [recto]

Childe Hassam · 1904 · watercolor on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.505.a

Joseph Pennell, New York, the Old and the New, c. 1910s, graphite and pastel on wove paper mounted to board, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2015.19.507

New York, the Old and the New

Joseph Pennell · c. 1910s · graphite and pastel on wove paper mounted to board ·  Accession ID  2015.19.507

Winslow Homer, Young Woman Sewing, 1876, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2014.79.40

Young Woman Sewing

Winslow Homer · 1876 · watercolor over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2014.79.40

Thomas Wilmer Dewing, The Green Dress, c. 1910, pastel on wove paper mounted to composition board, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2015.19.499

The Green Dress

Thomas Wilmer Dewing · c. 1910 · pastel on wove paper mounted to composition board ·  Accession ID  2015.19.499