american paintings in the princeton university art museum

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George Inness - The Home of the Heron - Google Art Project (28217152)

George Inness - The Home of the Heron - Google Art Project (28217152)

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Solar Eclipse by Howard Russell Butler, 1925

Solar Eclipse by Howard Russell Butler, 1925

Solar Eclipse by Howard Russell Butler, 1925, oil on canvas, Princeton University

Winter-Landscape-Valley-of-the-Catskills-(1866)-Moore

Winter-Landscape-Valley-of-the-Catskills-(1866)-Moore

Winter Landscape, Valley of the Catskill, 1866 Oil on canvas 18 x 26 cm. (7 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.) frame: 28 × 35.5 × 4.7 cm (11 × 14 × 1 7/8 in.) Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr. y1953-35

1802, West, Benjamin, Eagle Bringing cup to Psyche

1802, West, Benjamin, Eagle Bringing cup to Psyche

Benjamin West, American, 1738–1820 Eagle Bringing cup to Psyche, 1802 (?) Oil on wooden panel 29.8 x 42.6 cm (11 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.) frame: 41.6 × 54 × 5.5 cm (16 3/8 × 21 1/4 × 2 3/16 in.) Museum purchase, John... More

1834, Cole, Thomas, Study for The Course of Empire-The Savage State

1834, Cole, Thomas, Study for The Course of Empire-The Savage State

Thomas Cole, American, 1801–1848 Study for The Course of Empire–The Savage State, ca. 1834 Oil on paper mounted on canvas 16 x 26 cm. (6 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.) frame: 29.5 × 39.5 × 4.7 cm (11 5/8 × 15 9/16 × 1 7/8... More

1850, Durand, Asher Brown, Kaaterskill Landscape

1850, Durand, Asher Brown, Kaaterskill Landscape

Asher Brown Durand, American, 1796–1886 Kaaterskill Landscape, 1850 Oil on canvas 54 x 44 cm. (21 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.) frame: 77.2 × 67.2 × 8.5 cm (30 3/8 × 26 7/16 × 3 3/8 in.) Museum purchase, John Maclean Mag... More

1854, Cropsey, Jasper Francis, Morning

1854, Cropsey, Jasper Francis, Morning

Jasper Francis Cropsey, American, 1823–1900 Morning, 1854 Oil on canvas 44 x 32 cm. (17 5/16 x 12 5/8 in.) frame: 59.5 × 47 × 7 cm (23 7/16 × 18 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.) Gift of Stuart P. Feld, Class of 1957, and Mrs.... More

1855, Cropsey, Jasper Francis, Evening

1855, Cropsey, Jasper Francis, Evening

Jasper Francis Cropsey, American, 1823–1900 Evening, 1855 Oil on canvas 44 x 33 cm. (17 5/16 x 13 in.) frame: 59.5 × 47 × 7 cm (23 7/16 × 18 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.) Gift of Stuart P. Feld, Class of 1957, and Mrs. Fel... More

1872, Cropsey, Jasper Francis, Brimstone and Sugar Loaf Mountains from Warwick

1872, Cropsey, Jasper Francis, Brimstone and Sugar Loaf Mountains from...

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1877, Harvey, Sarah E., Winsted, Connecticut

1877, Harvey, Sarah E., Winsted, Connecticut

Sarah E. Harvey, American, 1834–1924 Winsted, Connecticut, ca. 1877 Oil on canvas 45.5 x 71.1 cm (17 15/16 x 28 in.) frame: 55.9 × 81.9 cm (22 × 32 1/4 in.) Gift of Edward Duff Balken, Class of 1897 y1958-100 ... More

1880, Johnson, Eastman, Study for A Glass with the Squire

1880, Johnson, Eastman, Study for A Glass with the Squire

Eastman Johnson, American, 1824–1906 Study for A Glass with the Squire, ca. 1880 Oil on paper board 64.5 x 53 cm. (25 3/8 x 20 7/8 in.) frame: 88.9 × 76.6 × 7.8 cm (35 × 30 3/16 × 3 1/16 in.) Gift of Stuart P.... More

Blum, Robert Frederick, Chinese street scene, after 1890

Blum, Robert Frederick, Chinese street scene, after 1890

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 Chinese street scene, after 1890 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper 22.8 x 15.3 cm. (9 x 6 in.) Museum purchase x1943-308 Though Blum spent two... More

Blum, Robert Frederick, That is Where All Babies Live in Japan, 1890-92

Blum, Robert Frederick, That is Where All Babies Live in Japan, 1890-9...

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 That is Where All Babies Live in Japan, 1890–92 Watercolor on board 35.7 x 27.4 cm. (14 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.) Gift of Charles Scribner III, Class of 1973 and Graduate ... More

1839, Doughty, Thomas, View toward the Hudson River

1839, Doughty, Thomas, View toward the Hudson River

Thomas Doughty, American, 1793–1856 View toward the Hudson River, ca. 1839 Oil on canvas 54 x 44 cm. (21 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.) frame: 73 × 63 × 6 cm (28 3/4 × 24 13/16 × 2 3/8 in.) Gift of Mrs. Heermance in memor... More

A painting of a landscape with a river and trees 1850s, Duncanson, Robert S., Untitled (Landscape)

A painting of a landscape with a river and trees 1850s, Duncanson, Rob...

Robert S. Duncanson, American, 1821–1872 Untitled (Landscape), late 1850s Oil on canvas 61 x 66 cm. (24 x 26 in.) frame: 92.3 × 120.5 × 7.5 cm. (36 5/16 × 47 7/16 × 2 15/16 in.) Museum purchase, Kathleen Compt... More

Hassam, Childe, Newfields, New Hampshire, 1917

Hassam, Childe, Newfields, New Hampshire, 1917

Childe Hassam, American, 1859–1935 Newfields, New Hampshire, 1917 Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper 25.2 x 35.2 cm. (9 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.) Gift of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Lett... More

Hassam, Childe, View in Montmartre, Paris, 1889

Hassam, Childe, View in Montmartre, Paris, 1889

Childe Hassam, American, 1859–1935 View in Montmartre, Paris, 1889 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper 35.3 x 25.3 cm. (13 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.) Gift of Stuart Riddle Stevenson, Class of 1918... More

Hill, John William, Cucumbers, ca. 1860

Hill, John William, Cucumbers, ca. 1860

John William Hill, American, 1812–1879 Cucumbers, ca. 1860 Watercolor on cream wove paper 18.9 x 31.7 cm. (7 7/16 x 12 1/2 in.) Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund x1991-73 Around 1855, after reading ... More

Moore, Charles Herbert, Mount Washington, 1872

Moore, Charles Herbert, Mount Washington, 1872

Charles Herbert Moore, American, 1840–1930 Mount Washington, 1872 Watercolor and touches of graphite on cream wove paper 16 x 23 cm (6 5/16 x 9 1/16 in.) Gift of Miss Elizabeth Huntington Moore, the artist's d... More

Moore, Charles Herbert, Snow Squall, 1865-66

Moore, Charles Herbert, Snow Squall, 1865-66

Charles Herbert Moore, American, 1840–1930 Snow Squall, 1865–66 Watercolor and touches of graphite on cream wove paper 14.3 x 22.7 cm. (5 5/8 x 8 15/16 in.) Gift of Miss Elizabeth Huntington Moore, the artist'... More

Moran, Thomas, Venice, The Lagoon Looking toward Santa Maria della Salute, 1894

Moran, Thomas, Venice, The Lagoon Looking toward Santa Maria della Sal...

Thomas Moran, American, 1837–1926 Venice: The Lagoon Looking toward Santa Maria della Salute, 1894 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream laid paper 27.3 x 41.2 cm. (10 3/4 x 16 1/4 in.) Gift of Mrs. Ph... More

Sargent, John Singer, Tyrol, 1914

Sargent, John Singer, Tyrol, 1914

John Singer Sargent, American, 1856–1925 The Tyrol, 1914 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper 25.4 x 35.6 cm. (10 x 14 in.) Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions ... More

1777, West, Benjamin, Two Officers and a Groom in a Landscape

1777, West, Benjamin, Two Officers and a Groom in a Landscape

Benjamin West, American, 1738–1820 Two Officers and a Groom in a Landscape, 1777 Oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 cm. (40 x 50 in.) frame: 124 × 150.3 × 5.8 cm (48 13/16 × 59 3/16 × 2 5/16 in.) Gift of the Forbes Col... More

Hauling the Seine - Public domain  drawing

Hauling the Seine - Public domain drawing

Thomas Eakins, American, 1844–1916 Hauling the Seine, 1882 Oil on canvas 31.5 x 46.8 cm. (12 3/8 x 18 7/16 in.) frame: 59.8 × 75.5 × 14 cm (23 9/16 × 29 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.) Gift of the Forbes Collection: Steve For... More

1919, Thayer, Abbott Handerson, Monadnock, Winter Sunrise

1919, Thayer, Abbott Handerson, Monadnock, Winter Sunrise

Abbott Handerson Thayer, American, 1849–1921 Monadnock, Winter Sunrise, 1919 Oil on canvas 133 x 158 cm. (52 3/8 x 62 3/16 in.) frame: 168 × 191.5 × 10.5 cm (66 1/8 × 75 3/8 × 4 1/8 in.) Gift of Frank Jewett M... More

George Bellows - California Headlands (1917)

George Bellows - California Headlands (1917)

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1875, Bierstadt, Albert, Mount Adams, Washington

1875, Bierstadt, Albert, Mount Adams, Washington

Catalogue Entry: Like Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt enjoyed great success in the years surrounding the Civil War, producing finely detailed vistas of nature’s splendor in majestic canvases that were simila... More

Little Girl in a Large Red Hat by Mary Cassatt, ca. 1881

Little Girl in a Large Red Hat by Mary Cassatt, ca. 1881

Little Girl in a Large Red Hat by Mary Cassatt, ca. 1881, oil on canvas, 43.8 x 38.7 cm., Princeton University Art Museum

James Barry (1755?–1808) by Gilbert Stuart

James Barry (1755?–1808) by Gilbert Stuart

James Barry Gilbert Stuart, American, 1755–1828 Oil on canvas 73 x 61 cm. (28 3/4 x 24 in.) frame: 101 × 89 × 11.2 cm (39 3/4 × 35 1/16 × 4 7/16 in.) Princeton University Art Museum Bequest of Aileen Osborn We... More

La Farge, John, Study of Afterglow from Nature (Tahiti, Entrance to Tautira Valley), 1891

La Farge, John, Study of Afterglow from Nature (Tahiti, Entrance to Ta...

John La Farge, American, 1835–1910 Study of Afterglow from Nature (Tahiti: Entrance to Tautira Valley), 1891 Watercolor and gouache with graphite and black colored pencil on cream wove paper 21.2 x 33.2 cm. (8... More

1907, Prendergast, Sea and Boats

1907, Prendergast, Sea and Boats

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1917, Prendergast, Maurice, New England Shore

1917, Prendergast, Maurice, New England Shore

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Young Woman in a Black and Green Bonnet, Looking Down

Young Woman in a Black and Green Bonnet, Looking Down

One of America’s leading expatriate artists, Mary Cassatt settled in Paris in 1874, where she was greatly influenced by the pastels of her friend and mentor Edgar Degas. Pastel was described as Mary Cassatt’s ... More

William Merritt Chase - Shinnecock, Long Island (c.1896)

William Merritt Chase - Shinnecock, Long Island (c.1896)

Public domain photograph of 19th-century American painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dead Rising from Tombs (Thomas Cole)

Dead Rising from Tombs (Thomas Cole)

Undated painting by Thomas Cole. Public domain photograph of 19th-century English painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

South American Scene (Vespers, Guayaquil River, Ecuador), by Louis Remy Mignot, American, 1862, oil on canvas - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC06955

South American Scene (Vespers, Guayaquil River, Ecuador), by Louis Rem...

Exhibit in the Princeton University Art Museum - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Sunrise, Northport Harbor, by Arthur Dove, American, 1929, oil on canvas - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC07002

Sunrise, Northport Harbor, by Arthur Dove, American, 1929, oil on canv...

Exhibit in the Princeton University Art Museum - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

The Battle of Princeton by James Peale

The Battle of Princeton by James Peale

The Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777. Also depicts George Washington's personal flag, or headquarters flag, thirteen white six-pointed stars in apparently a 4-5-4 pattern on a field of blue.

Princetonwashington - A painting of a man on a horse holding a flag

Princetonwashington - A painting of a man on a horse holding a flag

General George Washington rallying his troops at the Battle of Princeton.

Still life by John F. Francis, American, 1866, oil on canvas - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC06901

Still life by John F. Francis, American, 1866, oil on canvas - Princet...

Exhibit in the Princeton University Art Museum - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

1859, Durand, Asher Brown, Landscape

1859, Durand, Asher Brown, Landscape

Asher Brown Durand, American, 1796–1886 Landscape, 1859 Oil on canvas 77 x 61.5 cm (30 5/16 x 24 3/16 in.) frame: 99 × 84 × 8.5 cm (39 × 33 1/16 × 3 3/8 in.) Gift of J. O. MacIntosh, Class of 1902 y1955-3249

Doughty, Thomas, The Highlands from West Point, 1839

Doughty, Thomas, The Highlands from West Point, 1839

Thomas Doughty, American, 1793–1856 The Highlands from West Point, 1839 Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper 24.1 x 40.5 cm. (9 1/2 x 15 15/16 in.) Museum purchase, gift of Leonard Milberg, Class of 195... More

1870s, Haseltine, William Stanley, Isle of Capri, The Faraglioni

1870s, Haseltine, William Stanley, Isle of Capri, The Faraglioni

William Stanley Haseltine, American, 1835–1900 Isle of Capri: The Faraglioni, 1870s Oil on canvas 83 x 142 cm. (32 11/16 x 55 7/8 in.) frame: 97.8 x 158.8 x 5.1 cm. (38 1/2 x 62 1/2 x 2 in.) Princeton Universi... More

Elizabeth Stockton Green circa 1800

Elizabeth Stockton Green circa 1800

Elizabeth Stockton Green circa 1800 Public domain photograph of portrait painting, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description