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Pushing for Rail, (painting). Artist:  Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916, painter. Title:  Pushing for Rail, (painting). Dates:  1874. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  13 x 30 1/16 in. (33.0 x 76.4 cm). Inscription:  (Lower right:) EAKINS 74 signed Description:  A hunting scene in a marsh landscape, where men in groups of two stand in small boats, African-American figures at the back pushing the boat though the marsh with a pole, and hunters at the front holding rifles to shoot marsh birds known as rail. One hunter aims his rifle at a passing bird, while another loads his rifle, and the third scans the sky. Sailboats are visible in the distance. Subject:  Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Hunting Figure group -- Male Ethnic -- African American Landscape -- Marsh Architecture -- Boat -- Canoe Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 16.65 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Eakins, Thomas, until 1916. Exhibitions:  Paris Salon of 1875, Paris, 1875, (no. 757 or 758). Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts One Hundred Eleventh Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1916, (no. 274). References:  Adler, Kathleen, Erica E. Hirshler and H. Barbara Weinberg, "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900," London : National Gallery, 2006, no. 79. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 594. Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pg. 156. Illustration:  Image on file. Adler, Kathleen, Erica E. Hirshler and H. Barbara Weinberg, "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900," London : National Gallery, 2006, no. 79. Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pl. 30. Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 597. 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 36120362   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120362 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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