Professor John Wilmerding

American, 1938 - 2024

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Tall, billowing, lavender-purple and shell-pink clouds line the distant horizon over a vast plain of flat grassy land in this horizontal landscape painting. Closest to us to the lower left, a tree with a gnarled trunk and round, sage-green canopy sits mostly in shadow. A river curves from near the tree to cut across most of the landscape in a tight S-shape. One plump haystack, shaped like a giant teardrop, sits near a curve of the river in the vivid, lemon-lime field, to our left of center. One brown and one white cow graze across the river, to our right. Above tawny-brown hills lining the horizon, sunlight from our left turns the tops of the band of clouds pale pink, and the undersides are grayish-purple. The sky above is turquoise. The artist signed the lower right corner, “M J Heade.”
Martin Johnson Heade, Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes, c. 1871/1875, oil on canvas, John Wilmerding Collection, 2010.74.1

Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes

Martin Johnson Heade · c. 1871/1875 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2010.74.1

James Nachtwey, Iraq, 2003, printed later, inkjet print, Gift of John Wilmerding, 2018.185.1

Iraq

James Nachtwey · 2003, printed later · inkjet print ·  Accession ID  2018.185.1

Varujan Boghosian, Untitled, 2019, collage of photomechanical prints, Gift of John Wilmerding, 2019.176.1

Untitled

Varujan Boghosian · 2019 · collage of photomechanical prints ·  Accession ID  2019.176.1

Still Life with Crab Apples and Grapes

Joseph Decker · 1888 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2020.162.1

Jervis McEntee, Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1864, oil on canvas, Gift of John Wilmerding in honor of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, 2016.141.1

Mount Desert Island, Maine

Jervis McEntee · 1864 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2016.141.1

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, "Double Eagle" Twenty Dollar Gold Piece [obverse], model 1905-1907, struck 1907, gold alloy, Gift of John Wilmerding, 2008.100.1.a

"Double Eagle" Twenty Dollar Gold Piece [obverse]

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · model 1905-1907, struck 1907 · gold alloy ·  Accession ID  2008.100.1.a

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, "Double Eagle" Twenty Dollar Gold Piece [reverse], model 1905-1907, struck 1907, gold alloy, Gift of John Wilmerding, 2008.100.1.b

"Double Eagle" Twenty Dollar Gold Piece [reverse]

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · model 1905-1907, struck 1907 · gold alloy ·  Accession ID  2008.100.1.b

Walker Evans, Ledgers, 1953, gelatin silver print, Gift of John Wilmerding, 2008.16.1

Ledgers

Walker Evans · 1953 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2008.16.1

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The Truants

Joshua Shaw · 1843 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2016.22.22

Thomas Eakins, The Chaperone, c. 1908, oil on canvas, Gift of John Wilmerding, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.34.1

The Chaperone

Thomas Eakins · c. 1908 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1991.34.1