Watering Horses
Artist
Junius Brutus Stearns
American, 1810–1885
Date1852
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm)
Frame: 39 3/8 x 46 5/8 x 4 1/4 in. (100 x 118.4 x 10.8 cm)
Frame: 39 3/8 x 46 5/8 x 4 1/4 in. (100 x 118.4 x 10.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.27
On View
Not on view[1] Levy Galleries inventory no. 26816.
Published ReferencesMary Bartlett Cowdrey, American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union, 2 Vols. (New York: New York Historical Society, 1953), Vol. 1, listed in Malcolm Stearns, Jr., "Addendum: Sale of Art-Union Holdings, 1852," 303 (as purchased by G. Daniels); Vol. 2, listed 337 (as Watering Horses)
W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings; Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 31.
American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh:North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 51, illus. (b-w).
Herman Warner Williams, Jr., Mirror to the American Past: A Survey of American Genre Painting (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973), discussed 115, illus. (b-w) fig. 103.
American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no. 33.
American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Asheville: Asheville Art Museum, 1976), listed (with artist's bio.) 28, illus. (b-w) 29.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, American Art-Union, "Exhibition of Pictures ... to be sold at Auction," December 15-17, 1852, no. 95 (as Watering Horses).
Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19, 1975, no. 33.
Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 16-June 27, 1976, listed (with artist's bio.) 28, illus. (b-w) 29.
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