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Blythe, David Gilmour,
Architecture interior -- Commercial
Architecture interior -- Commercial
Cartoon -- Political
Figure group
Dress -- Costume
Occupation -- Monetary
Object -- Other
Painting
United States Treasury, (painting).
Artist:
Blythe, David Gilmour, 1815-1865, painter.
Title:
United States Treasury, (painting).
Other Titles:
Foreign Loans, (painting).
Dates:
ca. 1862-1863.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
16 x 18 in. (40.6 x 45.7 cm)
Inscription:
(Lower left:) Blythe signed
Description:
Figures inside a bank: two customers and a teller, who counts money behind the counter. One of the customers is Uncle Sam. The other customer, a bearded foreigner, walks toward the door with one hand in his pocket.
Subject:
Architecture interior
--
Commercial
--
United States Treasury
Architecture interior
--
Commercial
--
Bank
Cartoon
--
Political
Figure group
Dress
--
Costume
--
Uncle Sam Costume
Occupation
--
Monetary
--
Banker
Object
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Other
--
Money
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 58.56.1
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Batchelor, Charles W., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by 1879.
Lawrence, Captain, Port Washington, New York before 1950.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York 1950.
Newhouse Gallery, New York, New York 1950.
Anonymous collection, after 1950.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York by 1958.
Purchased 1958.
References:
Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992.
Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pg. 20.
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992, pg. 97.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 46470135
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