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Anshutz, Thomas Pollock: Aunt Hannah

Archer, Edmund: Howard Patterson of the Harlem Yankees

Benton, Thomas Hart: Plantation Road

Bonham, Horace: Nearing the Issue at the Cockpit

Brook, Alexander: Georgia Jungle

Brooke, Richard Norris: A Pastoral Visit

Buchser, Frank: Guitar Player

Chandler, Winthrop: View of a River with Trees and Figures

Clonney, James Goodwyn: A Negro Boy Asleep

Clonney, James Goodwyn: Militia Training

Clonney, James Goodwyn: In the Cornfield

Copley, John Singleton (After): Watson and the Shark

Crowe, Eyre: Slave Market, Richmond, Virginia

Darling, Aaron E.: John Jones

Darling, Aaron E.: Mary Richardson Jones

Duncanson, Robert: Uncle Tom and Little Eva

Eakins, Thomas: Female Model

Eakins, Thomas: Whistling for Plover

Eakins, Thomas: Study for "Negro Boy Dancing": The Boy

Eakins, Thomas: Negro Boy Dancing

Eakins, Thomas: The Red Shawl

Eakins, Thomas: Portrait of Henry O. Tanner

Earl, Ralph: Gentleman with Attendant

Forbes, Edwin: Mess Boy Asleep

Fuller, George: Negro Funeral, Alabama

Gwathmey, Robert: Shanties

Hardy, Jeremiah Pearson: Abraham Hanson

Henri, Robert: Sylvester

Henry, Edward Lamson : Sharpening the Saw

Hirsch, Joseph: The Lynch Family

Homer, Winslow: Army Boots

Homer, Winslow: Near Andersonville

Homer, Winslow: Taking a Sunflower to Teacher

Homer, Winslow: A Visit from the Old Mistress

Homer, Winslow: Sunday Morning in Virginia

Homer, Winslow: Dressing for the Carnival

Hovenden, Thomas: Their Pride

Inness, George: Sunset in Georgia

Jocelyn, Nathaniel: Portrait of Cinqué

Johnson, Eastman: Negro Boy

Johnson, Eastman: A Ride for Liberty - The Fugitive Slaves

Johnson, Eastman: Dinah, Portrait of a Negress

Johnson, Joshua: Portrait of a Man (Abner Coker)

Johnson, William H.: Girl in a Green Dress

Jones, Francis Coates: The Orchard

Kühn, Justus Engelhardt: Portrait of Henry Darnall III

Lawrence, Jacob: And the Migrants Kept Coming

Levine, Jack: Birmingham, 1963

Limner, Payne: Alexander Spotswood Payne and his Brother, John Robert Dandridge Payne, with their Nurse

Marsh, Reginald: Negroes on Rockaway Beach

Martin, John Blennerhassett: James Armistead Lafayette

Mayr, Christian Friedrich: Kitchen Ball At White Sulphur Springs

Moran, Thomas: The Slave Hunt or Slaves Escaping Through the Swamp

Mount, William Sidney: Famers Nooning

Mount, William Sidney: The Power of Music

Mount, William Sidney: California News

Mount, William Sidney: Right and Left

Mount, William Sidney: The Bone Player

Mount, William Sidney: The Banjo Player

Peale, Charles Willson: Portrait of Yarrow Mamout

Pippin, Horace: The Holy Mountain III

Prior, William Matthew: Three Sisters of the Copeland Family

Prior, William Matthew (attributed to): William Whipper

Prior, William Matthew (manner of): Lady in a Fine Scarf

Remington, Frederic : Leaving the Canyon (10th Cavalry Soldiers with Wounded Apache)

Ropes, George: Salem Common on Training Day

Sargent, John Singer: The Bathers

Shahn, Ben: The Church is the Union Hall

Soyer, Raphael: City Children

Sully, Thomas: Edward James Roye

Tanner, Henry Ossawa : The Banjo Lesson

Unknown Artist: Enigmatic Foursome

Unknown Artist: Portrait of a Gentleman

Unknown Artist: Slave Market

Unknown Artist: Thomas Bronk

Walker, William Aiken: Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863

Warrell, James: The Banjo Man

Wood, Thomas Waterman: Moses, the Baltimore News Vendor

Woodville, Richard Caton: War News from Mexico

Wyeth, Andrew: Granddaughter

ARTIST INDEX

The exhibition The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in 1964 included eighty paintings from over fifty museums and private collections across the United States. Experience the paintings here, arranged in general chronological order.


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AFTER JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (1738-1815)

Watson and the Shark, ca. 1778

oil on canvas

24 7/8 x 30 1/8 inches

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

PAYNE LIMNER (1780-1803)

Alexander Spotswood Payne and his Brother, John Robert Dandridge Payne, with their Nurse, ca. 1790-91

oil on canvas

56 x 69 inches

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA


JUSTUS ENGELHARDT KÜHN (1702- ca.1787)

Portrait of Henry Darnall III, ca. 1710

oil on canvas

54 x 44 1/6 inches

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD

RALPH EARL (1751-1801)

Gentleman with Attendant, ca. 1785-88

oil on canvas

30 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

JAMES WARRELL (1780-1854)

The Banjo Man, ca. 1810

oil on canvas

38 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches

Valentine Richmond History Center, Richmond, VA


WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790)

View of a River with Trees and Figures, 1779

oil on panel

22 1/2 x 61 inches

Location Unknown


JOSHUA JOHNSON (ca.1763 – ca.1824)

Portrait of a Man (Abner Coker), ca. 1805-1810

oil on canvas

27 7/8 x 22 inches

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

CHARLES WILLSON PEALE (1741-1827)

Portrait of Yarrow Mamout(Muhammad Yaro), 1819

Oil on canvas

24 x 20 inches

Philadelphia Museum of Art:
Purchased with the gifts (by exchange) of R. Wistar Harvey, Mrs. T. Charlton Henry, Mr. and Mrs. J. Stogdell Stokes, Elise Robinson Paumgarten from the Sallie Crozer Hilprecht Collection, Lucie Washington Mitcheson in memory of Robert Stockton Johnson Mitcheson for the Robert Stockton Johnson Mitcheson Collection, R. Nelson Buckley, the estate of Rictavia Schiff, and the McNeil Acquisition Fund for American Art and Material Culture, 2011

JOHN BLENNERHASSETT MARTIN (1797-1857)

James Armistead Lafayette, 1824

oil on canvas

28 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches

Valentine Richmond History Center, Richmond, VA


GEORGE ROPES (1788-1819)

Salem Common on Training Day, 1808

oil on canvas

35 x 52 3/4 inches

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH MAYR (1805-1851)

Kitchen Ball At White Sulphur Springs, 1838

oil on canvas

24 x 29 1/2 inches

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC


JEREMIAH PEARSON HARDY (1800-1887)

Abraham Hanson, ca. 1828

oil on canvas

24 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

UNKNOWN ARTIST

Portrait of a Gentleman, ca. 1830

oil on panel

26 x 21 inches

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

(attributed to) WILLIAM MATTHEW PRIOR (1806-1873)

William Whipper, ca. 1835

oil on canvas

24 3/4 x 20 1/8 inches

Fenimore Art Museum (New York State Historical Association), Cooperstown, NY


UNKNOWN ARTIST

Enigmatic Foursome, ca. 1825-1850

oil on canvas

28 x 24 inches

Fenimore Art Museum (New York State Historical Association), Cooperstown, NY

NATHANIEL JOCELYN (1796-1881)

Portrait of Cinqué, 1839

oil on canvas

30 x 25 inches

New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, CT

(manner of) WILLIAM MATTHEW PRIOR (1806-1873)

Lady in a Fine Scarf, ca. 1845

oil on canvas

30 x 25 inches

Fenimore Art Museum (New York State Historical Association), Cooperstown, NY


WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT (1807-1868)

Famers Nooning, 1836

Oil on canvas

20 1/4 x 24 1/2 inches

Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, Gift of Frederick Sturges, Jr., 1954

WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT (1807-1868)

The Power of Music , 1847

oil on canvas

17 x 21 inches

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH


WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT (1807-1868)

California News, 1850

Oil on canvas

21 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches

The Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Melville, 1955

WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT (1807-1868)

Right and Left , 1850

Oil on canvas

30 x 25 inches

The Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Melville, Museum Purchase, 1956

WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT (1807-1868)

The Bone Player, 1856

Oil on canvas

91.76 x 73.98 cm (36 1/8 x 29 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Bequest of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815– 1865, 48.461
© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


JAMES GOODWYN CLONNEY (1812-1867)

A Negro Boy Asleep, 1835

oil on canvas

13 3/4 x 17 inches

Victor D. Spark, New York, NY

JAMES GOODWYN CLONNEY (1812-1867)

Militia Training Date, 1841

Oil on canvas

28 x 40 inches

Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Bequest of Henry C. Carey (The Carey Collection)


WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT (1807-1868)

The Banjo Player, 1856

Oil on canvas

35 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches

The Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Melville, 1955

RICHARD CATON WOODVILLE (1825-1855)

War News from Mexico, 1848

Oil on canvas

27 x 25 inches

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Photography by The Walters Art Museum, Susan Tobin.

UNKNOWN ARTIST

Thomas Bronk, ca. 1857

pastel on paper

30 x 21 inches

Fenimore Art Museum (New York State Historical Association), Cooperstown, NY


JAMES GOODWYN CLONNEY (1812-1867)

In the Cornfield, 1844

Oil on canvas

14 x 16 7/8 inches

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Gift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 (47.1263)
© 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

unknown AMERICAN

Slave Market, c. 1850-1860

oil on canvas

H: 29 3/4 x W: 39 1/2 in. (75.56 x 100.33cm)

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA: Gift of Mrs. W. Fitch Ingersoll, 58.4


EYRE CROWE (1824-1910)

Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1853

Oil on canvas

21 3/4 x 32 inches

Heinz Family Collection

ROBERT DUNCANSON (1821-1872)

Uncle Tom and Little Eva, 1853

Oil on canvas

27 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches

Detroit Institute of Arts, USA/Bridgeman Images


EASTMAN JOHNSON (1824-1906)

Dinah, Portrait of a Negress, ca. 1867

oil on board

10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

THOMAS WATERMAN WOOD (1823-1903)

Moses, the Baltimore News Vendor, 1858

Oil on canvas

24 1/8 x 15 inches

Fine Art Museums of San Francisco; Gift of Henry K.S. Williams, 1944.7
© Fine Art Museums of San Francisco

THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872)

Edward James Roye, ca. 1864

Oil on canvas

24 x 30 inches

Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent; Gift to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania from the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, 1923.
Courtesy of the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent


WILLIAM MATTHEW PRIOR, American, (1806-1873)

Three Sisters of the Copeland Family, 1854

Oil on canvas

26 7/8 x 36 1/2 inches

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Bequest of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815- 1865 (48.467)
© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

EASTMAN JOHNSON (1824-1906)

Negro Boy, 1860

oil on canvas

14 x 17 1/8 inches

National Academy Museum, New York, NY


EASTMAN JOHNSON (1824-1906)

A Ride for Liberty - The Fugitive Slaves, ca. 1862

Oil on paperboard

21 15/16 x 26 1/8 inches

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Gift of Gwendolyn O. L. Conkling (40.59a-b)

WILLIAM AIKEN WALKER (1838-1921)

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863, 1886

oil on canvas

20 x 35 1/2 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC


THOMAS MORAN (1837-1926)

Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia, 1862

oil on canvas

34 x 44 inches

Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK

WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)

Army Boots, 1865

oil on canvas

14 x 18 inches

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.


AARON E. DARLING

Mary Richardson Jones, ca. 1865

oil on canvas

33 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches

Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL

AARON E. DARLING

John Jones, ca. 1865

oil on canvas

46 x 36 inches

Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL

WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)

Near Andersonville, 1865-1866

Oil on canvas

23 x 18 inches

Newark Museum, Newark; Gift of Mrs. Hannah Corbin Carter, Horace K. Corbin, Jr., Robert S. Corbin, William D. Corbin and Mrs. Clementine Corbin Day in memory of their parents Hannah Stockton Corbin and Horace Kellogg Corbin, 1966 (66.354)


WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)

A Visit from the Old Mistress, 1876

oil on canvas

18 x 24 inches

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)

Sunday Morning in Virginia, 1877

oil on canvas

18 1/2 x 24 inches

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH


WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)

Dressing for the Carnival, 1877

oil on canvas

20 x 30 inches

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

EDWIN FORBES (1839-1895)

Mess Boy Asleep, 1867

oil on canvas

14 x 20 1/4 inches

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT


WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)

Taking Sunflower to Teacher, 1875

Watercolor on paper

7 x 5 7/8 inches

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, Gift of Alfred H. Holbrook (GMOA 1945.50)

FRANK BUCHSER (1828-1890)

Guitar Player, 1867

oil on canvas

24 x 18 inches

Location Unknown,

THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916)

Female Model, ca. 1867-1869

Oil on canvas

30 1/4 x 27 3/8 inches

de Young Museum, San Francisco; Museum Purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection (1966.41)
© Fine Art Museums of San Francisco


HORACE BONHAM (1835-1892)

Nearing the Issue at the Cockpit, 1879

oil on canvas

20 1/8 x 27 inches

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916)

Whistling for Plover, 1874

transparent watercolor and small touches of opaque watercolor over graphite on cream, moderately textured wove paper

11 1/3 x 16 2/3 inches

Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY


THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916)

The Red Shawl, ca. 1890

Oil on canvas

24 x 20 inches

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Gift of Mrs. Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline Williams, 1929

THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916)

Study for "Negro Boy Dancing": The Boy, probably 1877

oil on canvas on cardboard

19 1/2 x 14 15/16 inches

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (1985.64.16)

THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916)

Portrait of Henry O. Tanner, ca. 1897

oil on canvas

24 5/8 x 20 1/8 inches

Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY


THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916)

Negro Boy Dancing, 1878

watercolor on off-white wove paper

18 x 22 4/7 inches

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

THOMAS HOVENDEN (1840-1895)

Their Pride, 1888

oil on canvas

31 x 40 inches

Union League Club, New York, NY


RICHARD NORRIS BROOKE (1847-1920)

A Pastoral Visit, 1881

oil on canvas

47 x 65 4/5 inches

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

GEORGE FULLER (1822-1884)

Negro Funeral, Alabama, 1881

Oil on canvas

17 3/4 x 30 inches

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Bequest of Anna Perkins Rogers (21.2174)
© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


EDWARD LAMSON HENRI (1841-1919)

Sharpening the Saw, 1887

painting

18 x 13 5/8 inches

Fenimore Art Museum (New York State Historical Association), Cooperstown, NY

FRANCIS COATES JONES (1857-1932)

The Orchard, n.d.

oil on canvas

20 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

THOMAS POLLACK ANSHUTZ (1851-1912)

Aunt Hannah, ca. 1880

oil on panel

12 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches

Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI


GEORGE INNESS (1825-1894)

Sunset in Georgia, 1890

oil on canvas board

18 x 24 inches

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)

The Bathers, 1917

oil on canvas

15 3/4 x 20 7/8 inches

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA


HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859-1937)

The Banjo Lesson, 1893

oil on canvas

49 x 35 1/2 inches

Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA

FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909)

Leaving the Canyon (10th Cavalry Soldiers with Wounded Apache), 1887

ink wash on paper

36 1/2 x 30 3/4 inches

Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA

ROBERT HENRI (1865-1929)

Sylvester, ca. 1914

oil on canvas

41 x 33 inches

Location Unknown,


REGINALD MARSH (1898-1954)

Negroes on Rockaway Beach, 1934

Egg tempera on composition board

30 x 40 inches

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hackett (61.2)
© 2014 Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)

Plantation Road, ca. 1944-45

Oil and tempera on canvas mounted on plywood

28 1/2 x 39 3/8 inches

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (46.22)
©T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; Photo Credit: Richard Stone
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ALEXANDER BROOK

American, 1898-1980

Georgia Jungle, 1939

oil on canvas

No Measurements

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA: Patrons Art Fund, 46.22

JACOB LAWRENCE (1917-2000)

And the Migrants Kept Coming, 1940-41

Casein Tempera on hardboard

12 x 18 inches

The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy (28.1942.30)
© 2014 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York


WILLIAM H. JOHNSON (1901-1970)

Girl in a Green Dress, ca. 1930

oil on canvas

24 1/4 x 19 1/8 inches

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

EDMUND ARCHER (1904-1986)

Howard Patterson of the Harlem Yankees, 1940

oil on canvas

No Measurements

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

BEN SHAHN (1898-1969)

The Church is the Union Hall, 1946

Tempera on board

20 x 16 inches

High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Purchase with funds from Sherri and Jess Crawford, High Museum of Art Enhancement Fund, the American Art Collectors, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schwob, and Mr. and Mrs. John L. Huber (2003.63)
© Estate of Ben Shahn/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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HORACE PIPPIN (1888-1946)

The Holy Mountain III, 1945

oil on canvas

25 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.

ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)

Granddaughter, 1956

Drybrush and opaque watercolor on thick wove paper

16 5/8 x 23 1/4 inches

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, Gift of Mrs. Robert Montgomery (1991.79)
© Andrew Wyeth


JOSEPH HIRSCH (1910-1981)

Lynch Family, 1946

Oil on canvas

35 x 33 inches

The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Gift of the Friends of Art (46-82)

ROBERT GWATHMEY (1903-1988)

Shanties, 1951

Oil on canvas

36 x 30 inches

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
© Estate of Robert Gwathmey/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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RAPHAEL SOYER (1899-1987)

City Children, ca. 1952

oil on canvas

47 x 37 inches

L. Arnold Weissberger, New York, NY

JACK LEVINE (1915-2010)

Birmingham, '63, 1963

Oil on canvas

71 x 75 inches

de Young Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco; Museum purchase, Dr. Leland A. Barber and Gladys K. Barber Fund, American Art Trust Fund and Mildred Anna Williams Collection, by exchange (1999.69)
© Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, Susanna Levine Fisher/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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