George Washington at Princeton
c. 1779
Charles Willson Peale
Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741–1827)
American Painting and Sculpture
George Washington at Princeton, c. 1779. Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741–1827), and Workshop. Oil on canvas; framed: 153 x 144 x 7 cm (60 1/4 x 56 11/16 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 131 x 121.6 cm (51 9/16 x 47 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Membership Income Fund 1917.946 Artist and scientist Peale directed the first dig of a mastodon skeleton in the U.S.
- Maker/Artist
- Peale, Charles Willson
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 153 x 144 x 7 cm (60 1/4 x 56 11/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 131 x 121.6 cm (51 9/16 x 47 7/8 in.)
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1917.946
- Credit Line
- Membership Income Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Art: The International Language, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October 1936), cat. no. 38. <br>Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Art: The International Language (2 October-4 November 1956)<br>Greensburg, PA, The Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Art in Pennsylvania (1959), cat. no. 87, illus. plate 8.<br>Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists (18 January-5 March 1967); traveled to Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (19 March-30 April 1967), cat. no. 52, illus. p. 13, listed p. 66-67. <br>Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776-1976 (6 March-11 April 1976); traveled to Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts (5 May-13 June 1976); Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art (4 July-15 August 1976); Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (8 September-10 October 1976), illus. cat. no. 1. <br>Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum (6 June-8 September 1991)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 204 Colonial American
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