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Smith, John Rubens,
Architecture exterior -- Studio
Architecture exterior -- Commercial
Architecture exterior -- Commercial
Figure group
Painting
The Shop and Warehouse of Duncan Phyfe, 168-172 Fulton Street, New York City, (painting).
Artist:
Unknown, painter.
Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849, painter. (formerly attributed to)
Title:
The Shop and Warehouse of Duncan Phyfe, 168-172 Fulton Street, New York City, (painting).
Dates:
ca. 1816.
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, and gouache on white laid paper.
Dimensions:
15 7/8 x 19 5/8 in. (40.3 x 49.8 cm).
Description:
View of the three buildings Duncan Phyfe purchased on Fulton Street that functioned as his workshop, showroom, and warehouse (from left to right). Over the first floor windows of his showroom in the middle, his name and trade are visible, and his name is visible over the entrance to his workshop on the left. Figures stand inside the doorway to the workshop, and other figures stand looking at chairs in the doorway to the showroom, and a single figure pops his head out of an upstairs window of the warehouse.
Subject:
Architecture exterior -- Studio -- Phyfe
Architecture exterior -- Commercial -- Store
Architecture exterior -- Commercial -- Warehouse
Figure group
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 22.28.1
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Phyfe, Duncan,
Phyfe, James D.,
Phyfe, Duncan, New York, New York until 1921.
Phyfe, Harry, New York, New York until 1921.
Fridenberg, Robert, New York, New York until 1922.
Acquired 1922.
References:
Avery, Kevin J., "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, pg. 112, 355.
Exh. catalog "Centennial of American Watercolor Society," Metropolitan Museum, 1966.
Black, Mary, "What is American in American art," New York: M. Knoedler, 1971.
Illustration:
Black, Mary, "What is American in American art," New York: M. Knoedler, 1971, no. 21.
Exh. cat. "Am. Watercolor Soc." Metropolitan Mus., 1966, pg.17.
Avery, Kevin J., "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, pg. 112.
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 36121552
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