The Musicale, Barber Shop, Trenton Falls, New York
Artist
Thomas Hicks
American, 1823–1890
Date1866
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions25 x 30 1/8 in. (63.5 x 76.5 cm)
Frame: 31 1/8 x 36 1/4 in. (79.1 x 92.1 cm)
Frame: 31 1/8 x 36 1/4 in. (79.1 x 92.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.15
On View
On viewAmerican Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 29, illus. (b-w).
Marchal E. Landgren, American Pupils of Thomas Couture (exhibition catalogue) (College Park: University of Maryland Department of Art, 1970), no. 15, illus. (b-w).
Joseph T. Butler, "The American Way with Art: Thomas Couture and His American Pupils" (exhibition review), Connoisseur 174 (August 1970), 312, illus. (b-w) 313.
Hermann Warner Williams, Jr., Mirror to the American Past: A Survey of American Genre Painting, 1750-1900 (Greenwich, CN: New York Graphic Society, 1973), discussed 118, illus. (b-w) fig. 107.
Life in 19th Century America (exhibition catalogue) (Evanston: Terra Museum of American Art, 1981), no. 39, illus. (b-w).
Leonie Rosensteil, ed., Schirmer History of Music (New York: Schirmer Books, 1982), illus. (b-w) 899.
David Tatham, "Thomas Hicks at Trenton Falls," American Art Journal 15 (Autumn 1983), 4-20, discussed 12-13, illus. (b-w) fig. 11.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 245.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 234.
Max Steele, "Speak, Painting, Speak," in The Store of Joys (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 52-55, illus. (color) 52.
John W. Coffey, entry for The Musicale, Barber Shop, Trenton Falls, New York, in North Carolina Museum of Art Handbook: of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 201, illus. (color).
Booklet accompanying audio CD - Violin, Sing the Blues for Me: African-American Fiddlers, 1926-1949 (Raleigh: Old Hat Enterprises, 1999), unnumbered, illus. (color detail).
Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson: Painting America (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art in Association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999), 148, 150, illus. (b-w) 148.
John W. Coffey, entry for The Musicale, Barber Shop, Trenton Falls, New York, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 418, illus. (color) 419.
Thomas B. Cole, M.D., "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 306, no. 14 (October 12, 2011), discussed 1523, illus. (color) 1523, 1509, and cover.
The American Violin (Red Wing, MN: AFVBM Foundation, 2016), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 20.
Leo G. Mazow, Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art (Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2022), figs. 4.4, 6.6 (detail).Exhibition HistoryAmerican Federation of Arts, "A Hundred Years Ago" (traveling exhibition), November 2, 1958-November 24, 1959, no. [?].
College Park, MD, University of Maryland Art Gallery, "American Pupils of Thomas Couture," March 19-April 26, 1970, no. 15, illus. (b-w).
Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Art Museum, "American Costume in Painting," August 28-September 24, 1979.
Evanston, IL, Terra Museum of American Art, "Life in 19th Century America," September 11-November 15, 1981, no. 39, illus. (b-w).
Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "18th and 19th Century American Art from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," June 20, 2003-February 22, 2004.
Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, "Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art," October 9, 2022–March 19, 2023; Frist Art Museum: May 26–Aug 13, 2023.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection Reimagined," June 17, 2024-present.
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