The Power of Music
1847
William Sidney Mount
William Sidney Mount (American, 1807–1868)
American Painting and Sculpture
The Power of Music, 1847. William Sidney Mount (American, 1807–1868). Oil on canvas; framed: 67 x 78 x 7.5 cm (26 3/8 x 30 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 43.4 x 53.5 cm (17 1/16 x 21 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1991.110 Mount was an accomplished fiddle player and even patented a new design for the instrument.
- Maker/Artist
- Mount, William Sidney
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 67 x 78 x 7.5 cm (26 3/8 x 30 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 43.4 x 53.5 cm (17 1/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed lower left: Wm S. MOUNT. / 1847
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1991.110
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- William Sidney Mount: American Genre Painter, American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915, <em>The Force of Music.</em> National Academy, Annual Exhibition, New York, NY (1847)., <em>The Washington Exhibition in Aid of the New York Gallery of the Fine Arts</em>. Art Union Gallery, New York, NY (1853)., <em>Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in the Picture Gallery of the Crystal Palace</em>. Crystal Palace, New York, NY (1853)., <em>Metropolitan Fair</em>. U.S. Sanitary Commission. New York, NY (1864)., <em>World's Columbian Exposition: Retrospective Exhibit of American Painting</em>. The Art Palace, Chicago, IL (1893)., <em>Centennial Exhibition 1825 - 1925</em>. National Academy of Design, New York, NY (April 1-April 24, 1925); Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC (October 17, 1925 - November 15, 1925); Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (December 1, 1925-January 3, 1926)., <em>American Genre: The Social</em> <em>Scene in Painting and Prints</em>. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (March - April 1935)., <em>Life in America.</em> Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (1939)., <em>Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by William Sidney Mount 1807 - 1868</em>. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (January - March 1942)., <em>A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Sketches, Manuscripts, Memorabilia</em> (of the Mount Family). Suffolk Museum at Stony Brook, Long Island, NY (1947)., <em> American Classics of the Nineteenth Century.</em> Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (October - December 1957)., <em>A Hundred Years Ago</em>. American Federation of the Arts, New York, NY (November 1958 - November 1959)., <em>The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting</em>. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (1964)., <em>Twice as Natural: 19th Century American Genre</em>. Finch College Art Museum, New York, NY (1974).., <em>Selected Acquisitions</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 28 - April 26 1992).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 207 American Realism
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