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Corn Husking, (painting). Artist:  Blythe, David Gilmour, 1815-1865, painter. Title:  Corn Husking, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1863-1864. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  24 x 33 1/2 in. (61.0 x 85.1 cm). Description:  Moonlit farmyard scene with a group of boys husking corn beside a barn and a wagon. Two of the boys fight with one another, while others watch, or continue to husk corn. In the background there is a farmhouse with a woman standing in the doorway. Subject:  Children Figure group -- Male Occupation -- Farm -- Harvesting Landscape -- Farm Landscape -- Celestial Landscape -- Time -- Night Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Farmhouse Architecture exterior -- Farm -- Barn Architecture -- Vehicle -- Wagon Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 57.19 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Shallenberger, John, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by 1879. Shallenberger, John, family of, Germany until 1957. Old Print Shop, New York, New York 1957. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Gardner & Feld, "American Ptgs," Metropolitan Museum,. Vol. I, 1965, pg. 278-280. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 598. Illustration:  Image on file. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 599. 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 36120230   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120230 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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