Van Brunt Homestead

ca. 1865

James Ryder van Brunt

American, 1820-1916

American Art

Throughout his career, the Brooklyn artist James Ryder van Brunt specialized in watercolors of local historic sites, farmhouses, and churches painted in a conventional, topographical style. His subject matter reflected a personal interest in the region’s Dutch heritage; his own ancestors had settled here in the seventeenth century. This picture depicts his grandfather’s homestead near what is now Third Avenue between Eighth and Eleventh streets (the Gowanus Creek is at the left).

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Van Brunt, James Ryder
Classification: Watercolor
Formatted Medium: Opaque and transparent watercolor and graphite on wove paper mounted to pulpboard
Medium: opaque, transparent, watercolor, graphite, wove, paper, mounted, pulpboard
Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 18 in. (37.5 x 45.7 cm) Frame: 18 x 24 x 1 1/2 in. (45.7 x 61 x 3.8 cm)
Inscribed: Inscribed on cardboard backing on frame: "An early view of rural Bklyn. / "The Van Brunt Homestead" / At Lip Denton's Mill, at the water's edge / By James Rider Van Brunt 1820-1913"
Departments: American Art
Accession Number: 1999.112
Credit Line: Bequest of Miriam Godofsky
Exhibitions: Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection
Rights Statement: No known copyright restrictions
Museum Location: This item is not on view
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