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Pittsford on the Erie Canal
183717 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (44.5 x 59.7 cm)
George Harvey
American (Tottenham, England, 1800 - 1878, England)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on panel
Credit Line:
Gift of the Margaret M. McDonald Memorial Fund
Accession Number:
2005.33
Location: Currently on view
This scene is thought to be in the vicinity of King’s Bend Park just outside of Pittsford Village.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Provenance
Victory Spark, New York, NY; purchased by Perry Rathbone, Boston, MA, ca. 1946; by descent to last owner; (Sotheby's, New York, auction May 18 2005); purchased by the Gallery in 2005
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- The Erie Canal: Thruway of Yesterday Memorial Art Gallery 10/1/1953 - 12/1/1953
- Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York, 1700-1875 New York State Historical Association 6/14/1958 - 2/28/1959
- The Genesee Country Memorial Art Gallery 1/1/1976 - 2/1/1976
- The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape, 1825-1875 Memorial Art Gallery 6/16/1984 - 8/12/1984
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Howard S. Merritt. The Genesee Country. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1975.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York, 1700-1875. Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1958.
- Article Title: MAG Acquires Major American, Italian Paintings. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. MAGazine. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Issue Date: Winter 2006. Page Number: 6
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 2000--.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Ralph K. Andrist. The Erie Canal. New York, NY: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1964.
- Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006 March April.
- Article Author: Searl, Marjorie B.. Article Title: George Harvey: Pittsford on the Erie Canal—A Sultry Calm. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 39-42
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Douglas Lazarus, ed. Reinspired: The Erie Canal, America's First Great Work of Civil Engineering. Bronx, NY: The Bronx County Historical Society, 2010.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Timothy Davis. National Park Roads: A Legacy in the American Landscape. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2016.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Marjorie Searl and Lu Harper. The Memorial Art Gallery: 100 Years. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2013.
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Seeing America Inservice
Materials from a teacher in-service presentation Spring 2008
Art Alive: Pittsford on the Erie Canal
Using MAG's Learning to Look/Looking to Learn philosophy, guide students' looking and use open-ended questions to elicit personal responses. Includes many suggestions for classroom activities and connections to reinforce ELA skills.
Seeing America
Chapter on George Harvey's Pittsford on the Erie Canal—A Sultry Calm, written by Marjorie B. Searl.
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The Historic Waterways Adventure Online Curriculum
The Historic Waterways Adventure Online Curriculum is comprised of a series of eight investigations that utilize primary sources: literary transcripts, maps, paintings, sheet music, engravings, reports and other documents from public and private collections, to explore what life was like on the Erie Canal. Pittsford on the Erie Canal is included in a lesson plan entitled "Mules and Horses along the Canal."