Claiming the Shot: A Group of Portraits after the Hunt in the Adirondacks

1865

John George Brown American, 1831-1913

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About the Artwork

Title Claiming the Shot: A Group of Portraits after the Hunt in the Adirondacks

Artwork Date 1865

Artist John George Brown

Life Dates 1831-1913

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 32 × 50 inches (81.3 × 127 cm) Framed: 47 1/2 × 65 5/8 × 6 1/8 inches (120.7 × 166.7 × 15.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 73.226

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Signed Signed and dated, lower left: J. G. Brown | N. Y. 1865

Provenance

1865, William Brand.
1971, Sotheby and Company (London, England).
1972, Meredith Long and Company (Houston, Texas, USA).
1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"A Visit to the Studios." New York Evening Post, February 16, 1865, p. 1.

Fortieth Annual Exhibition. Exh. cat., National Academy of Design. New York, 1865, no. 435.

Proteus, [Eugene Benson]. "Pictures at the Century Club." New York Commercial Advertiser, April 3, 1865, p. 2, col. 4.

Naylor, Maria K., compiler. The National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1861-1900, vol. 1. New York, 1973, p. 108.

Bulletin of the DIA 53 (1974): p. 78 (ill. only).

Exhibition of Pictures from Museums of the United States of America. Exh. cat., The Hermitage. Leningrad, 1976, p. 47, no. 11 (ill.).

Chefs-d’Oeuvre de Musees des Etats-Unis de Giorgione a Picasso. Exh. cat., Musee Marmottan. Paris, 1976. (col. pl. 34).

Rivard, N. “American Paintings Acquired During the Last Decade.” Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 2 (1977): pp. 69-108 (ill.).

“Family Art Game.” Detroit Free Press, April 27, 1980, p. 27 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

“Family Art Game.” Detroit News, April 29, 1984, p. 18 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

Country Paths and City Sidewalks: The Art of J.G. Brown. Exh. cat., George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum. Springfield, 1989, no. 5.

American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 2. New York, 1997, pp. 29-31 (ill.).

Hoppin, Martha. The World of J. G. Brown. Massachusetts, 2010, pp. 36-40, 277, 245.

Wild Spaces, Open Seasons. Exh. cat., Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Fort Worth, 2016, pp. 101-103, no. 11 (fig. 3.14).

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John George Brown, Claiming the Shot: A Group of Portraits after the Hunt in the Adirondacks, 1865, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 73.226.