Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Hicks, Edward,
Landscape -- Farm
Architecture exterior -- Domestic
Portrait female -- Twining, Elizabeth
Portrait male -- Hicks, Edward
Animal -- Cattle
Occupation -- Farm
Primitive
Painting
Residence of David Twining, (painting).
Artist:
Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849, painter.
Title:
Residence of David Twining, (painting).
Dates:
ca. 1845-1846.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
26 x 29 1/2 in. (66 x 75 cm)
Inscription:
(Lower center:) the Residence of David Twining in 1785/when the painter was five years old
Description:
View of the Twining Farm near Newtown, Pennsylvania where Edward Hicks was raised. In the right foreground, a young Hicks is seen seated at the knee of Elizabeth Twining, his guardian, listening to the Scriptures. Nearby a man opens the gate to an animal pen filled with cows, sheep, and pigs. In the middle ground, a man guides a plow pulled by two horses. Nearby, a man and a woman prepare to ride. In the background is the farmhouse, well, and barn.
Subject:
Landscape -- Farm -- Twining Farm
Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Farmhouse
Portrait female -- Twining, Elizabeth -- Full length
Portrait male -- Hicks, Edward -- Child
Animal -- Cattle
Occupation -- Farm
Primitive
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 62.39
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Twining, Sarah,
Carpenter, Francis William,
Carpenter, Francis William, daughter of, Greenwich, Connecticut
North Greenwich Congregational Church, Greenwich, Connecticut by 1961.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York 1961.
Acquired 1962.
References:
Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pg. 79.
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990.
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.
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. 255.
Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pl. 27.
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 46470161
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Paintings
46470161
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact