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The Artist and His Father Hunting Reed Birds on the Cohansey Marshes, (painting). Artist:  Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916, painter. Title:  The Artist and His Father Hunting Reed Birds on the Cohansey Marshes, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1874. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas laid on composition board. Dimensions:  17 1/8 x 26 1/2 in. (43.5 x 67.3 cm). Inscription:  (Lower center, inscribed on bow of boat:) BENJAMIN EAKINS FILIUS PINXIT signed Subject:  Portrait group -- Family -- Father & Child Portrait male -- Eakins, Thomas -- Full length Portrait male -- Eakins, Thomas -- Self Portrait Occupation -- Art -- Painter Portrait male -- Eakins, Benjamin -- Full length Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Hunting Object -- Weapon -- Gun Landscape -- Marsh Architecture -- Boat -- Rowboat Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2800 Grove Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23221 Accession Number: 85.638 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Eakins, Susan Macdowell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania McKinney, Roland J., Los Angeles, California Knoedler and Company, New York, New York 1955. Gift of Mellon, Paul, Mr. & Mrs., Upperville, Virginia References:  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Rasmussen, William M. S., "American Art to 1900," Antiques 138 (Aug. 1990): pg. 284, 288. Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pg. 215. "American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts," Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in association with University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2010, pg. 187. Illustration:  Image on file. Antiques 138 (Aug. 1990): pg. 288. Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, fig. 110. "American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts," Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in association with University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2010, pg. 188. 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 70620131   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 70620131 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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