Studies for "Dance on a Stone Boat" and "In the Cornfield"
James Goodwyn Clonney
c. 1844
Medium
graphite on two sheets of wove tracing paper
Dimensions
overall (irregular): 35.24 × 18.57 cm (13 7/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of J. William Middendorf, II)
Accession Number
2015.19.2654.1-2
About the Artist
James Goodwyn Clonney
James Goodwyn Clonney (1812–1867) was an American genre painter and miniaturist whose warm, gently humorous depictions of rural and small-town American life place him among the most appealing practitioners of the antebellum genre tradition. Born in England and brought to the United States as a child, he studied drawing and miniature painting in New York and worked for a period as a miniature portr...