country of origin: United States of America / material used: oil paint

instance of: painting (5,930) | study (23) | unfinished creative work (8) | sketch (6) | drawing (5) | oil painting (3) | artwork copy (2) | artwork original version (2) | portrait (1) | illustration (1) | painting series (1)

commissioned by: University of Pennsylvania (1) | William Bingham (1) | Federal Art Project (1) | Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (1) | William Thompson Walters (1) | Woodbury Langdon (1) | John Pratt (1) | Charles Lang Freer (1)

owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (57) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (31) | Carmen Cervera (26) | Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (18) | Dallas Museum of Art (16) | Harold E. Simon (9) | John Meyer (8) | Arizona State University Art Museum (7) | Phoenix Art Museum (6) | Oliver B. James (6) | Louis P. Church (5) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | John G. Johnson (3) | Samuel Colman (3) | Robert Lehman (3) | Coe Kerr Gallery (3) | Pauline Allen Gill Foundation (3) | George Bellows (2)

movement: Naïve art (39) | Hudson River School (27) | Impressionism (18) | Realism (17) | Volcano School (15) | American Impressionism (14) | Orientalism (13) | Ashcan School (6) | Tonalism (5) | realism (4) | luminism (3) | American realism (3) | Romanticism (2) | Luminism (2) | neoclassicism (1) | Cubism (1) | pop art (1) | German Expressionism (1)

genre: landscape art (1,359) | portrait (802) | marine art (175) | religious art (78) | genre art (71) | still life (61) | animal painting (60) | self-portrait (50) | architectural view (34) | floral painting (33) | history painting (28) | group portrait (23) | nude (14) | Orientalism (13) | battle painting (8) | military art (6) | trompe-l'œil (6) | allegory (6)

named after: cathedral (1)

based on: Cinderella (1) | Macbeth (1) | conversion of Paul the Apostle (1) | Lansdowne Portrait (1) | Rape of Belgium (1) | Dance of the Seven Veils (1) | The Bard (1) | Sita and Sarita (1) | John Jay (1) | The Ray of Light (1) | Cymon and Iphigenia (1)

artist: George Catlin (516) | Albert Bierstadt (320) | John Singer Sargent (135) | George Inness (135) | Frederic Edwin Church (125) | Gilbert Stuart (109) | Thomas Eakins (103) | Martin Johnson Heade (101) | John Singleton Copley (92) | Winslow Homer (91) | Thomas Cole (90) | Edward Mitchell Bannister (85) | Asher Brown Durand (73) | D. Howard Hitchcock (71) | Henry Ossawa Tanner (66) | Jasper Francis Cropsey (66) | Alice Pike Barney (62) | James Abbott McNeill Whistler (61)

part of the series: The Course of Empire (5) | Watson and the Shark (3) | The Voyage of Life (3) | Chocolate Grinder (series) (1) | The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 (1) | Naked Dave (1)

depicts: tree (956) | man (550) | woman (504) | sky (473) | cloud (447) | mountain (287) | river (200) | portrait (193) | landscape (181) | Indigenous peoples of the United States (178) | hill (156) | house (137) | boat (133) | horse (109) | coast (88) | flower (84) | sea (83) | rock (79)

collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum (1,443) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (834) | Museum of Fine Arts (737) | National Gallery of Art (535) | Art Institute of Chicago (180) | private collection (174) | The Phillips Collection (118) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (105) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (101) | Andrew W. Mellon collection (79) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (73) | Brooklyn Museum (70) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (64) | Birmingham Museum of Art (61) | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (61) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (61) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (44) | High Museum of Art (40)

location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (1,440) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (834) | Museum of Fine Arts (736) | National Gallery of Art (533) | Art Institute of Chicago (180) | The Phillips Collection (118) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (105) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (100) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (72) | Brooklyn Museum (66) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (63) | Birmingham Museum of Art (61) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (61) | M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (43) | High Museum of Art (40) | Walters Art Museum (38) | Yale University Art Gallery (34) | Yale Center for British Art (34)

part of: Four Freedoms (4) | The Peaceable Kingdom (3) | Watson and the Shark (1)

exhibition history: Joshua Johnson: Freeman and early American portrait painter (22) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (6) | Phoenix Art Museum (3) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (3) | Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (2) | London (1) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Philadelphia (1) | Baltimore (1) | Brown University (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | National Gallery (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Panama–Pacific International Exposition (1) | Amon Carter Museum of American Art (1) | World's Columbian Exposition (1)

main subject: George Washington (21) | man (16) | woman (12) | girl (10) | family (8) | child (6) | flight into Egypt (6) | Abraham Lincoln (3) | boy (3) | sibling (3) | crucifixion of Jesus (3) | Virgin Mary (2) | mother (2) | transport (2) | John Adams (2) | Indigenous peoples of the United States (2) | Annunciation (2) | Alexander Hamilton (2)

donated by: Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (4) | Charles Lang Freer (3) | anonymous (2) | Carl S. Dentzel (2) | John W. Hanes (2) | Works Progress Administration (1) | John D. Rockefeller III (1) | Henry Ward Ranger (1) | Pi Beta Phi (1) | J.E.R. Chilton (1) | Robert R. Rosenbaum (1) | Carolann Smurthwaite (1) | James Beattie (1) | Frederick Baekeland (1) | Mr. and Mrs. Bert J. Friedman (1) | Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Rogers (1) | Frederick R. Pleasants (1) | Charles F. Olney (1)

location of final assembly: New York City (3) | Paris (3) | New York (3) | England (2) | California (2) | Brooklyn (2) | Italy (1) | Netherlands (1) | London (1) | Boston (1) | France (1) | Rome (1) | Venice (1) | Maine (1) | Ecuador (1) | Massachusetts (1) | Arizona (1) | Philadelphia (1)

published in: Joshua Johnson: Freeman and early American portrait painter (22) | American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (3) | American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815 (2) | Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Collier's (1) | Art of Our Time: Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University (1) | Masterpieces of American Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915 (1) | American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection (1) | A Covenant of Seasons (1) | Charles Warren Eaton (1857-1937): An American Tonalist Rediscovered : November 4-December 31, 2004 (1) | Masterpieces: A Celebration of Food and Art in Virginia (1) | Early Art and Artists in West Virginia: An Introduction and Biographical Directory (1)

fabrication method: wash (1)