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oncise catalogue o in THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART A Concise Catalogue of the AMERICAN PAINTINGS in THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART COMPILED BY Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, Associate Curator of American Art NEW YORK 1957 Foreword This concise catalogue has been prepared in answer to a continuing de mand for a complete list of the Museum's collection of American paintings. It is the aim of the catalogue to give only the essential information about paintings in oil by American artists. The paintings are listed alphabeti cally by artist; measurements are given in inches, height preceding width; signatures and some inscriptions have been transcribed. All paintings acquired through December 1956 have been included. An asterisk on an entry indicates a subject received in exchange for an earlier acquisition. A detailed catalogue of American paintings, now in preparation, will be issued in due course. The compiler wishes to thank Mrs. Herbert Iselin for adding recent acquis itions to the catalogue, and Mrs. Josephine L. Allen and Mrs. Gardner for checking entries and correcting proofs. A. T. G. Catalogue Study in Black and Green Oil on canvas, 40x50 in. Signed (lower left): J. W. Alexander George A. Hearn Fund, 1908. 08.139.1 A Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Oil on canvas, 50x40 in. Signed and dated (lower right): American, Artist Unknown J. W. Alexander-89 XVIII century, second quarter Gift of Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank, 1891. 91.18 Thomas Nelson of Virginia (?) Oil on canvas, 46x36 in. Allen, Junius 1898- Source unknown. X.101 The Old New York Post Office Oil on canvas, 36x42 in. Abbey, Edwin Austin 1852-1911 Signed (lower left): Junius Allen King Lear's Daughters George A. Hearn Fund, 1940. 40.85 Oil on canvas, 54%xl27"/i in. Signed and dated (lower left): Allston, Washington 1779-1843 E. A. Abbey 1898 The Deluge. Attributed to Allston Gift of George A. Hearn, 1913. 13.140 Oil on canvas, 48*4x66 in. Gift of William Merritt Chase, 1909 09.14 Aiken, Mary Hoover 1907- Portrait of a Woman Back Street, Ibiza Oil on cardboard, 36*4x26% in. Oil on canvas, 21%x27% in. Gift of the Allston Trust, 1956. 56.53 Signed and dated (lower left): Hoover/1934 A Spanish Girl George A. Hearn Fund, 1938. 38.176 Oil on canvas, 30x25 in. Gift of Lyman G. Bloomingdale, 1901. Albers, Josef 1888- 01.7.2 Homage to the Square — Precinct Oil on composition board, 31%x31% in. Alston, Charles Henry 1907- Signed and dated (lower right): A 51 "Painting" George A. Hearn Fund, 1953. 53.174.2 Oil on canvas, 50x36 in. Homage to the Square — Young Signed and dated (upper right): Alston '50 5 Oil on composition board, 23 /8 x 23/4 in. Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1951. 51.18 Signed and dated (lower right): A 52 George A. Hearn Fund, 1953. 53.174.1 Ames, Ezra 1768-1836 Philip Van Cortlandt (1749-1831) Albright, Ivan Le Lorraine 1897- Oil on canvas, 36x28 in. Fleeting Time Thou Hast Left Me Old Gift of Christian A. Zabriskie, 1940. 40.94 Oil on canvas, 30%x20*4 in. Signed (lower left): Ames, Joseph Alexander 1816-1872 Ivan Le Lorraine Albright James Topham Brady Painted in 1929-30 Oil on canvas, 30x25 in. George A. Hearn Fund, 1950. 50.95 Signed and dated (lower right): J. Ames/1869 Alexander, Henry 1860-1895 Gift of Francis Lynde Stetson, 1910. 10.106 The Laboratory of Thomas Price Oil on canvas, 36x30 in. Andre*, Rene'e Emilie Clara Marie 1891- Signed (lower right): Henry Alexander Candida Painted about 1887 Tempera on composition board, 16x12 in. Alfred N. Punnett Fund, 1939. 39.46 Signed and dated (lower right): Ren£e Andre/1936 George A. Hearn Fund, 1937. 37.181 Alexander, John White 1856-1915 The Ring J Oil on canvas, 48%x36 /8 in. Anshutz, Thomas Pollock 1851-1912 Signed and dated (lower left): The Cabbage Patch John W. Alexander/1911 Oil on canvas, 24 x 17 in. Gift of Mrs. Mary Hearn Greims in Signed and dated (lower right): memory of Arthur Hoppock Hearn, 1912. Thos. Anshutz/1879 12.90 Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1940. 40.40 [1] Atherton, John C. 1900-1952 Woman at a Window The Black Horse — Imaginative Landscape Oil on canvas, 36x30 in. Oil on canvas, 37% x 52 in. Signed and dated (lower right): Painted in 1942 A. S. Baylinson/1934 Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1942. 42.159 George A. Hearn Fund, 1937. 37.153 Audubon, John James 1785-1851 Baziotes, William 1912- Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers Dragon Oil on canvas, 39%x26'/4 in. Oil on canvas, 47%x39% in. Rogers Fund, 1941. 41.18 Signed (lower right): Baziotes; dated (on back): 1950 Austin, Darrel 1907- Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1950. 50.27 The Tightrope Beal, Gifford 1879-1956 Oil on canvas, 20x24 in. Signed (lower right): Darrel Austin The Albany Boat Painted in 1941 Oil on canvas, 36% x60% in. George A. Hearn Fund, 1941. 41.177 Signed and dated (lower right): Gifford Beal 15 Avery, Milton 1893- George A. Hearn Fund, 1917. 17.48.1 Green Sea May fair Oil on canvas, 42x60 in. Oil on canvas, 28x25% in. Signed and dated (lower right): Signed and dated (lower center): Milton Avery 1954 Gifford Beal '13 Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1954. 54.111 Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1914. 14.72 Swimmers and Sunbathers Beaux, Cecilia 1855-1942 Oil on canvas, 28x48% in. A Girl in Uhite: Ernesta Signed and dated (lower right): Oil on canvas, 71%x43% in. Milton Avery 1945 Signed (lower left): Cecilia Beaux Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger, Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1915. 15.82 1951. 51.97 Bellows, George Wesley 1882-1925 Mrs. Chester Dale (Maud Murray, 1883-1953) Oil on canvas, 42 Yix40 in. Signed (upper right and lower right): Geo Bellows Painted in 1919 B Gift of the Chester Dale Collection, 1954. 54.196.2 Five Cows Badger, Joseph 1708-1765 Oil on canvas, 20 x 24% in. James Badger (1757-1817, artist's grandson) Painted about 1917-19 Oil on canvas, 42*/2x33% in. Bequest of Margaret S. Lewisohn, Dated (on back): July 8th 1760 1954. 54.143.5 Rogers Fund, 1929. 29.85 Padre Baker, George Augustus 1821-1880 Oil on wood, 40x32 in. Mrs. William Loring Andrews (Jane Elizabeth Inscribed by Emma Story Bellows Crane) (lower right): Geo. Bellows/ESB. Oil on canvas, 30x25 in. Painted in 1917 Gift of Jane Elizabeth Decker, 1940. 40.144 Rogers Fund, 1941. 41.81 John F. Kensett, N.A. (1818-1872) The Red Vine Oil on canvas, 27x22 in. Oil on wood, 22x28*4 in. Gift of an Association of Gentlemen, 1881. Inscribed by Emma Story Bellows 81.13 (lower left): Geo Bellows- E. S. B. Painted in 1916 Baylinson, Abraham S. 1882- Gift of the Chester Dale Collection, Woman with Raven-Black Hair 1954. 54.196.3 Oil on canvas, 20x14 in. Up the Hudson Signed and dated (lower right): Oil on canvas, 35%x48% in. A S Baylinson/1939 Signed (lower right): Geo. Bellows Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1940. 40.73 Gift of Hugo Reisinger, 1911. 11.17 [2] Benbridge, Henry 1744-1812 Woman with a Letter (Marguerite Zorach) Mrs. Benjamin Simons II of Charleston, Oil on canvas, 32x26 in. South Carolina (Ann Dymes, died 1776) Inscribed (on back): Oil on canvas, 29% x 25 in. Biddle/311/Marguerite Zorach Fletcher Fund, 1929. 29.58 Painted in 1933 Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1937. 37.71 Benn, Ben 1884- Still Life Bierstadt, Albert 1830-1902 Oil on canvas, 24%x30 in. Merced River, Yosemite Valley Signed and dated (lower right): Benn 41 Oil on canvas, 36x50 in. Gift of the New York City Works Signed and dated (lower right): Progress Administration, 1943. 43.47.7 A. Bierstadt 1866 Gift of the sons of William Paton, Benson, Frank Weston 1862-1951 1909. 09.214.1 Portrait of a Lady The Rocky Mountains Oil on canvas, 40x32% in. Oil on canvas, 73%xl20% in. Signed and dated (upper right): Signed and dated (lower right): F. W. Benson/1901 A. Bierstadt 1863 George A. Hearn Fund, 1906. 06.1221 Rogers Fund, 1907. 07.123 Two Boys (the artist's grandsons) Oil on canvas, 32x40 in. Bingham, George Caleb 1811-1879 Signed (lower left): F W Benson Fur Traders Descending the Missouri George A. Hearn Fund, 1927. 27.61 Oil on canvas, 29x36 ft in. Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1933. 33.61 Benton, Thomas Hart 1889- Cotton Pickers, Georgia Bishop, Isabel 1902- Oil and egg tempera on canvas, 30x35% in. Two Girls Signed (lower right): Benton Oil and tempera on composition George A. Hearn Fund, 1933. 33.144.2 board, 20x24 in. July Hay Signed (lower left): Isabel Bishop Oil and egg tempera on composition Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1936. 36.27 board, 38x26% in. Bittinger, Charles 1879- Signed and dated (lower left): Benton '43 The Boston Athenaeum George A. Hearn Fund, 1943. 43.159.1 Roasting Ears Oil on canvas, 32x26 in. Oil and egg tempera on canvas, 32x39% in. Signed (lower right): Bittinger George A. Hearn Fund, 1923. 23.256.1 Signed (lower left): Benton Painted in 1938-39 Blackburn, Joseph about 1700- after 1765 Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1939. 39.101.2 Mrs. Margaret Sylvester Chesebrough Oil on canvas 49% x 40% in. Berlandina, Jane 1898- Signed and dated (right center): H' hite Iris J. Blackburn Pinxit 1754. Oil on canvas, 36x27 in. Gift of Sylvester Dering, 1916. Signed (lower right): jberlandina Mary Sylvester Dering (Mrs. Thomas Dering George A. Hearn Fund, 1941. 41.171 of Shelter Island, N.