PAINTINGS COLLECTION
The Peabody Museum has a significant collection of paintings, drawings and prints, including nearly 200 paintings and 950 works of art on paper. The works of art on paper include watercolors and pencil/pen and ink drawings as well as pastels, dry points, etchings, engravings, charcoal and crayon sketches and lithographs.
The David I. Bushnell, Jr. Collection of American Art comprises about half of the Peabody's collection and includes works by George Catlin, Charles Bird King, George Gibbs, Edward Kern, and William Henry Holmes. The work of early artists such as Alexander de Batz, Carl Wimar and John Webber is represented in the Collection; over 130 oils, watercolors and pencil sketches by Seth Eastman [middle left] and drawings by Henry Elliot, including some from the Hayden Survey, depict mid-19th century America.
Other significant portions of the Peabody's paintings collection include: the work of Frederick Catherwood, Tatiana Proskouriakoff [top corner], Joseph Lindon Smith, Antonio Tejeda and Jean Charlot, depicting the monumental architecture of MesoAmerica; twentieth century works by Native Americans, including Quah-Ah, Fred Kabotie [bottom left], Ma Pe Wi, J.D. Roybal, and Jesse Cornplanter plus an extensive series of Inuit prints; a set of four oils by Augustin Brunias on Caribbean themes; oils by Champollion of India. Paintings by Julian Scott and Margaret Magill Hodges relate to the Hemenway Southwest Expedition. Watercolors of South African rock art and painted photographs by E.A.Burbank are two other extensive collections.
Related Links
Finding
to the David Ives Bushell, Jr.
Collection
(Photographic Archives) 3rd
Founder's Lecture:
A website to accompany a lecture on Fijian objects
in the Museum's collection, given by Marshall
Sahlins on May 7, 1998. It includes two paintings
by Charles Pickering.
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1. Ball Court,
Copán (#50-63-20/18488) Tatiana
Proskouriakoff. |
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