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Print
Our Next President
After Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910
Homer, Winslow
United States
1836 - 1910
Male
10 7/8 x 9 1/8 in. (27.6 x 23.2 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1868
1868
1868
1800-1900, 19th century, figure, politics in art, Ulysses S. Grant, wood engravings
Print
Published in "Harper's Weekly," October 31, 1868
lower center, in the block, inscribed LCtr: "Our Next President." [Drawn by Winslow Homer.]; inscribed UCtr: Saturday, October 31, 1868; inscribed LR: WH
1986.41
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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5/26/2016
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Print
The Inaugural Procession at Washington Passing the Gate of the Capitol Grounds
Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910
Homer, Winslow
United States
1836 - 1910
Male
10 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (27.3 x 23.2 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1861
1861
1861
1800-1900, 19th century, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, figure, politics in art, wood engravings
Print
Spread from Harper's of March 16, 1861
lower center, in the block, "see page 165" in square brackets integral to caption text
1986.21.1
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as President of the U. S., at the Capitol
After Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910
Homer, Winslow
United States
1836 - 1910
Male
13 3/4 x 20 1/8 in. (34.9 x 51.1 cm)
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Printer's ink
1861
1861
1861
1800-1900, 19th century, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, figure, politics in art, wood engravings
Print
Published in "Harper's Weekly," March 16, 1861
lower center, in the block
1986.22
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
86.22DI1
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3/26/2002
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Print
The Seceding Mississippi Delegation in Congress
After Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910
Homer, Winslow
United States
1836 - 1910
Male
10 7/8 x 8 1/16 in. (27.6 x 20.5 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1861
1861
1861
1800-1900, 19th century, Civil War, figure, men, politics in art, wood engravings
Print
Published in "Harper's Weekly," February 2, 1861
lower center, "see next page" in square brackets is integral to captionlower left, in the block
1986.20
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9/8/1999
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Sculpture
Francis Granger (1792 - 1868)
Hiram Powers, 1805 - 1873
Powers, Hiram
United States
1805 - 1873
Male
23 x 17 x 11 in. (58.4 x 43.2 x 27.9 cm)
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with base
Marble
Marble
1837
1837
1837
1800-1900, 19th century, busts, Granger Family, Canandaigua, NY, men, New York State & Local History, politics in art, portraits
Sculpture
“Now then for a small piece of vanity—Powers, the sculptor, is taking me in clay, to be wrought in marble in Italy next summer. If he does not get a perfect head, it will be his first failure.”
New York Congressman and Canandaigua resident Francis Granger was one of many prominent American politicians to sit for a classical-style portrait bust by Hiram Powers. Many Grand Tourists made Powers’ sculpture studio in Florence, Italy, a stop on their travels, to witness the artist at work, view his latest creations, or commission a personal artwork.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
Why do portrait busts often have blank eyeballs? Here’s one theory: originally, many ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were painted, including the eyes, but over the years the paint has faded so that by the 19th century, the eyes appeared to be blank. While 19th century artists often modeled their portrait busts of important political figures on these Classical forms, they did not know that the eyes had been painted originally, so they left them blank. Only with current technology has it been possible to understand how the older sculptures actually appeared.
The subject of this sculpture, Francis Granger (1792 – 1868), was born a decade after the American Revolution and died right after the Civil War. A congressman from nearby Canandaigua when he posed for this sculpture in 1837, he said: “Now then for a small piece of vanity – Powers, the sculptor, is taking me in clay, to be wrought in marble in Italy next summer. If he does not get a perfect head, it will be his first failure.”
[Gallery label text, 2009]
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Print
General Grant and His Family (after William Cogswell)
John Sartain, (London, England, 1808 - 1897, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Sartain, John
United States
1808 - 1897
Male
Engraver
Cogswell, William
United States
1819 - 1903
Male
Original artist
After
28 1/4 x 21 7/8 in. (71.8 x 55.6 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1868
1868
1868
1800-1900, 19th century, engravings, politics in art, portraits, Ulysses S. Grant
Print
lower leftlower right
1985.66
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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7/22/2004
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Print
The County Election (after George Caleb Bingham)
John Sartain, (London, England, 1808 - 1897, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Bingham, George Caleb
United States
1811 - 1879
Male
Original artist
After
Sartain, John
United States
1808 - 1897
Male
Engraver
25 5/8 x 32 3/16 in. (65.1 x 81.8 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
Hand-colored line, stipple and mezzotint engraving on chine colle
1854
1854
1854
1800-1900, 19th century, mezzotints, politics in art
Print
This scene is a commentary on American elections as well as on a specific Election Day in 1850. On that day, in Saline County, Missouri, the artist George Caleb Bingham ran for a place in the State Legislature. E. D. Sappington, the candidate lifting his shiny top hat, was the winner. Sappington, with his workers, tried to buy votes with liquor, and because he was related to the judge and one of the clerks, the election’s outcome aroused suspicion. While Bingham did not contest the results, The County Election makes a powerful statement about his thoughts concerning the corrupt proceedings. The artist represents himself as the figure in the stovepipe hat seated on the courthouse steps, attended by a friendly dog and two men in white hats who pause to look over his shoulder.
John Sartain was a highly successful engraver and publisher. He is well-known for his mezzotints of paintings by some of America’s major artists, including Emanuel Leutze and Thomas Sully. His descendants continued to make important contributions to the world of 19th century American art.
[Gallery label text, October 2010]
lower rightlower center
1991.73
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Painting
Trial Scene
David Gilmour Blythe, 1815 - 1865
Blythe, David Gilmour
United States
1815 - 1865
Male
22 1/4 x 27 in. (56.5 x 68.6 cm)
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approximate installation dimensions
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without frame
Oil
Oil
ca. 1862-1863
1862
1863
1800-1900, 19th century, genre scenes, men, paintings, politics in art
Painting
Blythe’s painting shows a scene of frontier justice in a rough building serving as a courtroom. A backwoods “lawyer” at the center either defends or makes his case against a shackled prisoner at the right. However, some elements of the scene, including the onlookers—some armed with long guns, some distracted by a card game—and the pot and sack at the lower left labelled “tar” and “feathers,” reveal that this is an extrajudicial proceeding. The prisoner whittles unconcernedly while his fate is decided, suggesting that this is a typically satirical genre scene for Blythe, who made other paintings of farcical trials and caricatured politics.
[Gallery label text, 2019]
verso, Exhibition label, removed from painting and now stored in object file.illegible, lower left, Letters from the dealers and the permanent collection worksheet done in 6/78 claim that it is signed, but it is very difficult to read now.
1941.24
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
Jurors Listening to Counsel, Supreme Court, New City Hall, New York
Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910
Homer, Winslow
United States
1836 - 1910
Male
9 x 13 3/4 in. (22.9 x 34.9 cm)
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Printer's ink
1869
1869
1869
1800-1900, 19th century, figure, politics in art, wood engravings
Print
Published in "Harper's Weekly," February 20, 1869
lower center, in the block
1986.45
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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