Studies for "Dance on a Stone Boat" and "In the Cornfield"

Studies for "Dance on a Stone Boat" and "In the Cornfield" by James Goodwyn Clonney

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...

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