TitleLandscape
Attributed Artist
John William Casilear
(American, 1811 - 1893)
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MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 10 1/8 × 18 1/8 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number191-P
Label TextAs Kevin Avery noted in his discussion of this unsigned painting, its provenance is problematic. Casilear's National Academician diploma presentation was his engraving after Daniel Huntington's Sybil. When this was submitted to the Council on May 10, 1852, two days before the annual meeting and expiration of his year from the date of his election, Casilear wrote James H. Shegogue, the Academy's corresponding secretary, that he hoped to make a further contribution of an oil painting. Such good intentions were common among newly confirmed members and were rarely carried through; there is no indication that Casilear ever directly presented one of his paintings to the Academy. Although the work has no documentary history in the collection until the early twentieth century, at which time it acquired its attribution, the landscape is consistent with Casilear's style and contains the "refinement of color and softness of atmospheric effect" noted in his eulogy. It is likely that the work was one of "twenty-seven sketches" that came to the Academy as part of the Suydam bequest in 1865 but for the rest of the nineteenth century seem to have been considered ephemeral and not worthy of individual registration.
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