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Painting
Portrait of a Boy of the Bracciforte Family of Piacenza
Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, (ca. 1505 - ca. 1569)
Abate, Niccolò dell'
Italy
1509-1512 - 1571
Male
Previous attribution
Bedoli, Girolamo Mazzola
Italy
ca. 1505 - ca. 1569
Male
65 x 34 5/8 in. (165.1 x 87.9 cm)
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ca. 1560
1555
1565
1400-1600, angels, children, musical instruments (depictions), paintings, portraits, Renaissance & Baroque
Painting
Every pictorial element in this full-length portrait of a young boy refers to his aristocratic heritage and high status in society. His costume is made of a richly-textured fabric trimmed with buttons of gold; the elegant purse at his waist, his fashionable small plumed hat and the golden hilt of his sword attest to the wealth of his family. The coat of arms on the gilded medallion he holds in his right hand clearly identifies him as a member of the Bracciforte family of Piacenza, one of the richest cities in Renaissance Europe. A book, flute and allegorical statue of Fame, shown here as a winged figure holding two long, thin trumpets, are on a table at his right; they suggest the importance of education and music in the highest strata of Renaissance society.
For decades, this portrait was attributed to the painter Niccolò dell’Abate. Recent scholarship, however, has suggested that it is the work of Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, who was well known for his portraits of the Farnese and other notable and aristocratic families in the Duchy of Piacenza as well as the nearby Duchy of Parma. These two duchies united only a few years after this portrait was painted.
[Gallery label text]
back of stretcherback of canvasback of canvas, 18th-century hand?back of canvas, 18th-century hand?back of frameback of canvasback of stretcherback of canvas, Circular pattern-- mark of old seal or stamp since removed or faded?
1976.13
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Painting
Autumn Brook
George Bellows, 1882 - 1925
Bellows, George
United States
1882 - 1925
Male
16 1/2 x 24 in. (41.9 x 61 cm)
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Oil
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October 1922
10/1922
10/1922
1900-2000, 20th century, landscapes, paintings, Realism
Painting
With his unflinching paintings of brutal boxing matches and urban tenements, George Bellows made a name for himself in the early years of the century as a central Urban Realist artist. In this later painting, "Autumn Brook," the modernist influence of expressive color, space and line is visible in Bellows’ lyrical painting of the countryside near his summer home in Woodstock, NY.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
"Autumn Brook" contains the archetypal elements present in Bellows's finest Woodstock landscapes, including water, rolling hills, mountains, animal life, vegetation, and a dramatic sky. Bellows's choice of vivid colors celebrates the magnificence of nature and the artist's joy at finding himself immersed in it. The active brush strokes prove his ability to paint with a controlled sense of abandon.
[Gallery label text]
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Painting
Evening Group
George Bellows, 1882 - 1925
Bellows, George
United States
1882 - 1925
Male
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
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1914
1914
1914
1900-2000, 20th century, Ashcan School and friends, leisure activities, paintings, Realism, seascapes
Painting
This painting portrays the artist with his wife, Emma, and daughter, Anne, on vacation on Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine. Two neighbor children occupy the right side of the canvas.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
In the summer of 1914, painter George Bellows convinced his wife, Emma, to travel to Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine along with their young daughter, Anne. There, he hoped to paint more of the stunning seascapes he had worked on so successfully in past years. Evening Group depicts Emma and Anne on the left, the artist in the middle, and two neighbor children on the right.
Based in New York City during much of the year, Bellows found that the harsh beauty of places like Monhegan Island provided him with subjects that contrasted dramatically with his acclaimed urban scenes. He first visited the island in 1911 in the company of his teacher and mentor, Robert Henri, and wrote enthusiastically to Emma: “The Island is only a mile wide and two miles long, but it looks as large as the Rocky Mountains. It’s three times as high as Montauk [Long Island] and all black and grey rock. Beautiful pine forests and wonderful varieties of all kinds…” In another letter, he lamented “my head is full of millions of great pictures which I will never have time to paint.”
[Gallery label text, 2005]
lower leftback of panel, Handwritten, capital letters, printed (not script) on back of panel.
1947.13
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Painting
Boomtown
Thomas Hart Benton, 1889 - 1975
Benton, Thomas Hart
United States
1889 - 1975
Male
46 1/8 x 54 1/4 in. (117.2 x 137.8 cm)
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Egg yolk and oil
Egg yolk and oil
1928
1928
1928
1900-2000, 20th century, American Scene/Regionalism, cityscapes, Encyclopedia Britannica Collection, paintings
Painting
Early in his career, Thomas Hart Benton was involved in the American abstract movement, Synchromism. In the 1920s, Benton embarked on a style that incorporated Synchromist rhythmic line and expressive color with representational imagery of rural America. With this major shift in style, Benton established the Regionalist movement. Many consider Boomtown to be the artist’s first Regionalist masterpiece.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Boomtown is one of the masterpieces of the Gallery's collection because of its impressive and unique depiction of an American landscape. When Thomas Hart Benton sketched this panoramic scene from a second floor window, the smoky fire on the horizon signified progress, not pollution. Borger, Texas was a boomtown that sprang to life in 1926 after a refinery company hit a gusher that produced 5000 gallons of oil a day.
Benton is one of the three major American Regionalists (the other two are Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry), so called because most of their subjects were about life in the rural heartland of America.
While Benton was not a fan of contemporary modernist painting, and in fact disdained artists who painted in the abstract style, he couldn't help but be influenced by the curvy and streamlined aesthetic of his times and the way in which artists were reinterpreting three-dimensional space. Consider the way in which the people, buildings and landscape are layered from top to bottom on the canvas, rather than being laid out carefully from front to back in the manner of traditional artistic renderings.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
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Painting
Unfinished Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd (1729-1777)
John Singleton Copley, (Boston, MA?, 1738 - 1815, London, England)
Copley, John Singleton
United States
1738 - 1815
Male
29 3/8 x 24 5/8 in. (74.6 x 62.5 cm)
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ca. 1765
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1600-1800, 18th century, artist portraits, artists, Colonial, men, paintings, portraits
Painting
Nathaniel Hurd (1730-1778), silversmith, goldsmith, and engraver, was a member of a distinguished Boston family of silversmiths. In addition to creating a number of silver pieces, he was well-known for his bookplates, which were designed for many distinguished colonial families including Loyalists and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and were based on heraldic motifs (to which they may or may not have been entitled). Hurd also designed a plate for his own family, as well as bookplates for both Harvard and Dartmouth Colleges. The bookplates provide an unusual link to the social and intellectual climate of the times, and literally speak volumes about sociocultural aspirations of eighteenth-century America.
Hurd was a contemporary of Copley’s. This ca. 1765 portrait, Copley’s first to depict a fellow artisan in working costume, had been preceded by an earlier miniature that Copley had painted of Hurd in 1755.
[Gallery label text, 1996]
removed from stretcher, Now in curatorial fileremoved from stretcher, Now in curatorial file. Old exhibition label, mostly torn away
1944.2
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Painting
Genesee Oaks
Asher Brown Durand, 1796 - 1886
Durand, Asher Brown
United States
1796 - 1886
Male
28 1/4 x 42 in. (71.8 x 106.7 cm)
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1860
1860
1860
1800-1900, 19th century, cows, Hudson River School, landscapes, paintings, rivers, trees in art, views of Rochester & western New York
Painting
Asher B. Durand was commissioned to paint this magnificent vista overlooking the Genesee River Valley in Geneseo, New York, by a member of the Wadsworth family, the village founders. At one time, they owned all the land from Geneseo to Rochester.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
No matter what the weather, this view across the Genesee Valley near Geneseo is as breathtaking now as it was over two hundred years ago, when landowner James S. Wadsworth commissioned Hudson River school founder Asher B. Durand to record the beauty of the landscape in a painting. In the summer of 1859, Durand traveled from New York City to the Genesee Valley to make preparatory sketches. Trained as an engraver, he recorded many of the details that he saw, but in addition, his personal belief in the immanence of the divine in the natural world motivated him to present a landscape that seems to extend infinitely.
Statuesque oak trees, many of which are still standing on the land, dominate the painting. In this region, the trees were more than a decorative feature. When the Wadsworths began to sell and lease land to local farmers, they included a clause in the contract requiring that a number of trees remain after the land was cleared. This was a holdover from British husbandry; the result was a countryside that was not only beautiful but that provided sun and moisture control for humans and animals alike. Genesee Oaks was Durand's tribute to the splendor of this valley.
[Gallery label text]
Durand visited the Genesee country but once, sketching in the Geneseo area during late June and July of 1859. Of his trip he wrote to his son in August: "With all my troubles I believe I have learnt more about the management of colors in the painting of trees than by all my previous practice, altho' I have never produced so little in the same span of time, not having made but four studies in five weeks."
During the following year, back in his studio, Durand painted Genesee Oaks, based on the sketches he had made. The painting was commissioned by James Samuel Wadsworth, a local squire, who owned the work when it was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1861. Seven oil studies done near Geneseo in 1859 are photographed in Durand's studio after 1878. A photograph shows three small sculptures of cows, two standing, one reclining that may have served as models for the animals in the painting.
Howard S. Merritt
Peters, Susan Dodge, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. (Rochester, NY: The Memorial Art Gallery, 1988). p.182-3.
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Painting
Beach at Blue Point
William Glackens, 1870 - 1938
Glackens, William
United States
1870 - 1938
Male
25 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. (64.1 x 76.5 cm)
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1920
1900-2000, 20th century, Ashcan School and friends, leisure activities, paintings, seascapes
Painting
Like many American painters, including Winslow Homer, William Glackens was an artist-reporter early in his career. He met Robert Henri in Philadelphia, shared a studio with him, and went to Paris with him in 1895. Upon Glackens's return, he moved to New York City. He exhibited with The Eight in 1908, and chaired the Armory Show in 1913. By 1914, he was devoting all of his time to painting, and espoused subjects like this one, colorful depictions of Americans at play. Many of his paintings reflect the influence of French impressionists, particularly Pierre Auguste Renoir.
[Gallery label text, 2003]
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Painting
Pittsford on the Erie Canal
George Harvey, 1800 - 1878
Harvey, George
United States
1800 - 1878
Male
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Painting
This scene is thought to be in the vicinity of King’s Bend Park just outside of Pittsford Village.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
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Painting
Back from the Orchard
Eastman Johnson, 1824 - 1906
Johnson, Eastman
United States
1824 - 1906
Male
10 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (26.4 x 16.8 cm)
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ca. 1876
1871
1881
1800-1900, 19th century, children, figure, paintings
Painting
lower right
1975.138
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Painting
Summer Street Scene in Harlem
Jacob Lawrence, 1917 - 2000
Lawrence, Jacob
United States
1917 - 2000
Male
20 1/16 x 24 1/8 in. (51 x 61.2 cm)
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Tempera
Tempera
1948
1948
1948
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, Images of Black People, New York city, paintings, Social Realism
Painting
Jacob Lawrence put his own stylistic innovations on the flattened surfaces, distorted shapes, and bold colors of modernism. Here his vibrant palette and energetic composition express the joy and vitality of a summer in Harlem. Children play with their soap box and approach a shaved ice vendor; adults gather in conversation. Lawrence moved to Harlem with his family at the age of twelve, and he was greatly influenced by the creative community flourishing there.
Lawrence chronicled the lives, accomplishments, and challenges experienced by Black communities in the United States. His best-known series, The Migration of the Negro (1941), depicted the mass movement of Black people who relocated from the American South to the North, Midwest, and West in search of economic and social mobility. Lawrence’s parents themselves moved to the North in this exodus known as the Great Migration, which took place from the 1910s through the 1970s.
[Gallery label text, 2024]
lower rightback of panel, Undated; from 1974-75 exhibitionback of panel, partly covered by another labelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panel, orange tag with black printing
Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence
1991.5
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Painting
Ice Cream Cones
Reginald Marsh, 1898 - 1954
Marsh, Reginald
United States
1898 - 1954
Male
24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm)
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Egg tempera
Egg tempera
1938
1938
1938
1900-2000, 20th century, MAG Lending Library, paintings, women
Painting
lower right
1945.70
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Painting
Towing a Boat, Honfleur
Claude Monet, (Paris, 1840 – 1926, Giverny, France)
Monet, Claude
France
1840 - 1926
Male
21 3/4 x 32 5/16 in. (55.2 x 82.1 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1864
1864
1864
1800-1900, 19th century, boats, men, paintings, seascapes
Painting
"All that is painted directly, at a given moment, has a force, power, and vitality which can never be duplicated in a studio." --Eugène Boudin, to his student Claude Monet
Claude Monet’s early paintings were solidly grounded in the work of the preceding generation of French landscape painters called the Barbizon school. Their insistence on painting en plein air, or out of doors, led to Monet’s passion for capturing the transience of light.
Towing a Boat, Honfleur, painted ten years before the term Impressionism was coined, captures the moment that night overtakes sunset. It is one of the earliest of Monet’s many seascapes. As an experiment in reproducing the changing effects of light under different atmospheric conditions, the painting shows his process of abstracting nature into simplified forms and exaggerated color contrasts.
[Label copy from Monet: Vision and Process exhibition, 2018]
lower leftback of frame
1991.35
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Painting
Sunday Morning
Jerome Myers, 1867 - 1940
Myers, Jerome
United States
1867 - 1940
Male
37 1/2 x 44 1/2 in. (95.3 x 113 cm)
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1907
1907
1907
1900-2000, 20th century, Ashcan School and friends, children, cityscapes, men, paintings, women
Painting
Jerome Myers said of his art, “I went to the gutter for my subject, but they were poetic gutters.”
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Jerome Myers was called "the gentle poet of the slums" for his compassionate images of immigrant life in New York's Lower East Side. Myers recorded the unglamorous, yet commonplace aspects of city life, as did fellow painters John Sloan and Robert Henri, members of The Eight or the Ashcan School. However, his vision of the city's poor never evoked a sense of wretchedness: "Why catch humanity by the shirt-tail," he said, "when I could see more pleasant things?"
Though tame to us today, paintings like Sunday Morning were considered progressive, even "revolutionary" when they were painted, because of their subject matter. However, when it came to exhibiting with The Eight, Robert Henri didn't think that Myers's work was forceful enough. As a founder of the innovative American Association of Painters and Sculptors in 1911, Myers helped to pave the way for the watershed 1913 Armory Show in New York City, the exhibition that introduced European modernism to an enthusiastic but occasionally bewildered public.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
lower left
1998.74
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Painting
The Fox and the Heron
Frans Snyders and workshop, (Antwerp, 1579 - 1657, Antwerp)
Snyders, Frans
Flanders
1579 - 1657
Male
Artist
Workshop of Frans Snyders
Flanders
Male
Artist
47 1/8 x 61 1/4 in. (119.7 x 155.6 cm)
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ca. 1630-1640
1630
1640
1600-1800, 17th century, birds, fables & fairy tales, foxes, paintings
Painting
Monumental and decorative animal painting developed in Antwerp in the 17th century in the immediate circle of Rubens. Snyders, whose workshop was famous for this type of work, often also collaborated on the animals, flowers, and fruit in his friend Rubens's paintings. The rendering of materials such as the fur of the fox, the plumage of the bird, and the transparency of the glass jar add to the interest in texture.
"The Fox and the Heron" is a story from Aesop's Fables. In the background, the fox invites the heron for dinner and offers only a bowl of soup, impossible for the heron to eat. In the foreground, the heron in turn invites the fox. Dinner is served in a long-necked glass jar and the fox can only lick the outside.
Moral: One bad turn deserves another!
[Gallery label text, August 1996]
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Painting
Peeling Onions
Lilly Martin Spencer, 1822 - 1902
Spencer, Lilly Martin
United States
1822 - 1902
Female
36 x 29 in. (91.4 x 73.7 cm)
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ca. 1852
1847
1857
1800-1900, 19th century, food, genre scenes, home life, jobs & work, paintings, women
Painting
lower left, in frontmost peach. Second numeral unclear.
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The Death of Richard II
Francis Wheatley, (London, 1747 - 1801)
Wheatley, Francis
England
1747 - 1801
Male
78 x 60 in. (198.1 x 152.4 cm)
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ca. 1792-1793
1792
1793
1600-1800, 18th century, armor, men, paintings, violence, world history
Painting
Francis Wheatley was best known for his historical paintings, scenes of daily life, and portraits. He trained at the Royal Academy in London and became the director of the Society of Artists in 1774. Debts and an unfortunate affair with the wife of a colleague led to his abrupt departure from England to Ireland. He returned in 1783, when he began painting illustrations for works by contemporary authors. The success of these “painted illustrations” led to major commissions, including the one for this monumental painting from the print publisher Robert Bowyer.
One of Bowyer’s most ambitious projects was an illustrated edition of David Hume’s "The History of England." It comprised not only a lavish publication, but the creation of a “History Gallery” for the public display of the original paintings. According to Bowyer’s prospectus, the paintings were intended “to rouse the passions, to fire the mind with emulation of heroic deeds, or to inspire it with detestation of criminal actions.”
Wheatley responded to this challenge by depicting the more dramatic version of Richard’s death, in which he was beheaded rather than starved in prison. The theatrical gestures and expressions, lurid coloring, and bold brushwork serve to heighten the violent drama of the events. In the end, the project was a financial disaster; the paintings from the gallery, including Wheatley’s "The Death of Richard II," were sold in a lottery in 1807.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
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Study for "The Death of Richard II"
Francis Wheatley, (London, 1747 - 1801)
Wheatley, Francis
England
1747 - 1801
Male
14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (36.8 x 29.2 cm)
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ca. 1792-1793
1792
1793
European art
Painting
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Painting
Rama, Sita and Lakshmana Return to Ayodhya
Indian artist, (active )
Indian artist
India
Primary
11 1/4 x 17 15/16 in. (28.6 x 45.6 cm)
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Opaque watercolor
Jaipur, Rajasthan
ca. 1850-1900
1850
1900
1800-1900, 1900-2000, Indian, Lakshmana, paintings, Rama, Ramayana, Sita
Painting
This painting shows a scene at the end of the epic Indian poem, The Ramayana. Rama and Lakshmana have saved Sita and they all fly home on the aerial chariot Pushpaka to see Rama crowned king of Ayodhya. They ride with twenty-three million monkeys and bears who helped them defeat the demon king Ravana. When Ravana asked Brahma to make him indestructible to gods and demons, he underestimated the power of ordinary men and animals, who became his downfall after his abduction of Rama's wife, Sita.
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