Shakers Near Lebanon

c. 1838-1857

Nathaniel Currier

Associated Names
Nathaniel Currier

Publisher, American, 1813 - 1888

This is a drawing of a group of Shakers dancing near Lebanon. The image shows two rows of dancing figures in traditional attire within a room with windows showing green trees. The walls are adorned with hats and coats, arranged neatly. The men and women face each other in parallel lines, with the women in white dresses and bonnets, and the men in vests. One person dressed in red is seated, with a top hat on a nearby stool. The scene conveys a sense of rhythmic and communal activity, set in a serene environment.

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G27

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph with hand coloring on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.64 × 32.7 cm (8 1/8 × 12 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 31.75 × 42.55 cm (12 1/2 × 16 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.805

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reilly 1984, no. 5875

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1953; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977

1981

  • Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1981-1983, pp. 32-33, no. 3, repro

Bibliography

1970

  • Conningham, Frederic A. Currier and Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 236, no. 5475.

1984

  • Reilly, Bernard F., Jr. Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonné: A Comprehensive Catalogue of the Lithographs of Nathaniel Currier, James Merrit Ives and Charles Currier, including Ephemera Associated with the Firm, 1834-1907, volume 2. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1984, p. 611, no. 5875

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 55-
text at bottom on stone:
Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, / 2 Spruce St. N.Y. / Shakers near Lebanon

Wikidata ID

Q77013730

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