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Weehawken from Turtle Grove, (painting). Artist:  Bennett, William James, 1787-1844, painter. Wall, William Guy, 1792-after 1864, painter. (formerly attributed to) Title:  Weehawken from Turtle Grove, (painting). Other Titles:  View on the Hudson River, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1830. Medium:  Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper. Dimensions:  15 3/16 x 20 1/16 in. (38.6 x 51 cm). Description:  View from shore of the Hudson River at Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey looking out toward the Weehawken bluffs that today overlook the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. Turtle Grove in the foreground was once where turtles were caught at a gentleman's club, just north and east of Hoboken's former Elysian Fields. Out in the river there are sailboats and figures in rowboats. Subject:  Landscape -- River -- Hudson River Landscape -- New Jersey -- Weehawken Landscape -- New Jersey -- Hoboken Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Boating Architecture -- Boat -- Sailboat Architecture -- Boat -- Rowboat Figure group Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 54.90.107 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Arnold, Edward W. C., New York, New York until 1954. Remarks:  The painting was formerly attributed to William Guy Wall and was titled View on the Hudson River. References:  Exh.catalog "Centennial of American Watercolor Society," Metropolitan Museum, 1966, pg. 13. 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. 128, 293. Illustration:  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. 129. 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 81960025   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 81960025 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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