Collection Highlights
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
Date:
ca. 1906
Object Number:
PR.042.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bargaining (The Christmas Turkey)
Object Number:
S-50
Date:
ca. 1858
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 1/2 x 23 3/8 in. ( 41.9 x 59.4 cm )
frame: 25 x 31 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (25 x 31 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
Gallery Label:
This painting, in addition to, Pan of Milk and The Wind-Mill were on view at the National Academy of Art.
Bibliography:
"Fine Arts," The Albion, Vol. 36, No. 19, May 8, 1858, p. 22.
The Crayon, June 1858, p. 177
Mann, Maybelle, "Francis William Edmonds: Mammon and Art," The American Art Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn 1970, pp. 92-106.
Mann, Maybelle, Francis William Edmonds: Mammon and Art, New York University Ph.D. Dissertation, 1972, pp. 151-2.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 7, 10.
Clarke, H. Nichols B., Francis W. Edmonds, American Master in the Dutch Tradition, Washington, D.C.; Published for Amon Carter Museum by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988, pp. 128-9.
Johns, Elizabeth, American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991, pp. 14-5, 21, 209.
Gallati, Barbara Dayer, "American Genre painting and the Rise of 'Average Taste,'" The Magazine Antiques, November/December, 2011, pp. 134-141.
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
