Landscape (possibly of Staten Island, New York)
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Object Details
- Artist
- Unidentified
- Luce Center Label
- This painting appears to show a mining site on Todt Hill, Staten Island. The unknown artist chose to paint a busy crossroads, with wagons carrying ore back and forth and a stagecoach full of passengers. The Chinese laborers in the image suggest that the artist added details from his imagination, however, because there are no records of Asian residents or workers on the island in the mid-nineteenth century. (Lynda Hartigan, Made with Passion, 1990)
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- ca. 1850
- Object number
- 1986.65.155
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Folk Art
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27 x 34 in. (68.6 x 86.4 cm.)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure group
- Landscape\New York\Staten Island
- Architecture Exterior\domestic\farmhouse
- Object\other\birdhouse
- Record ID
- saam_1986.65.155
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk795c9b94f-3e95-4e47-a7b6-844c514d74bf
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