Object number1864.1.56
Caught in the Act
DateNd
Artist
Tompkins Harrison Matteson
(American, 1813-1884)
CultureAmerican
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 25 7/8 x 21 13/16 x 2 1/8 in. (65.72 x 55.4 x 5.4 cm)
Unframed: 22 1/4 x 18 in. (56.52 x 45.72 cm)
Unframed: 22 1/4 x 18 in. (56.52 x 45.72 cm)
Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned (LL): T. H. Matteson
BibliographyModeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC), p. 3ProvenanceCollections: Elias MagoonVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryAlbany, New York, Executive Mansion, “Nineteenth Century American Genre Painting,” April 16 - June 15, 1974; New York, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, “The Painter’s America: Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910,” September 18 - November 10, 1974;
Houston, Texas, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, December 2 - January 19, 1975; Oakland, California, The Oakland Museum, February 10 - March 30, 1975;
New London, Connecticut, The Lyman Allyn Museum, “Documentary History of the American Interior,” November 1 - November 30, 1980;
Yonkers, New York, The Hudson River Museum, “Domestic Bliss: Family Life in America Painting 1840 -1910,” May 18 - July 27, 1986;
Rochester, New York, The Strong Museum, August 17 - November 30, 1986; Chicago, Illinois, The Terra Museum, January 10 - March 29, 1887;
Poughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Modeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women," January 27-March 15, 2000;
Stanford California, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, “American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America,” February 1 - May 7, 2006, Washington D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, July 4 - September 17, 2006, Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, November 1 - January 7, 2007.
Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "American Stories 1800 - 1950," January 29 - April 17, 2016
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