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Preview image of work. oil on canvas, Coast Scene, Storm Passing Off 7534

1970.1

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Coast Scene, Storm Passing Off

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Artist

Daniel Huntington (1816 - 1906)

Title

Coast Scene, Storm Passing Off

Creation Date

ca. 1850

Century

19th century

Dimensions

21 7/8 in. x 27 1/8 in. (55.56 cm x 68.9 cm)

Object Type

painting

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Florence C. Quinby Fund, in memory of Henry Cole Quinby, Honorary Degree, 1916

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1970.1

Regarding Daniel Huntington’s paintings, critic Henry Tuckerman wrote in 1867: “The main idea, the chief aim of his pictures, to which fidelity of detail and artistic effect are subsidiary, is to express a sentiment . . . . He would not amuse, dazzle, or simply please us; he teaches and inspires.” Huntington was a leading figure in the New York art world at midcentury, serving as the president of the National Academy of Design beginning in 1862 and the founding vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A prominent portraitist, he also painted religious and historic subjects, as well as landscapes. Coast Scene, Storm Passing Off is a study for a larger painting of the same subject now in the collection of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma.