Spirit of '76, 1845

  • Tompkins H. Matteson, American, 1813-1884

Oil on canvas

  • 37 5/16 × 43 3/4 × 2 1/4 inches (94.8 × 111.1 × 5.7 cm)

Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

2017.59

On View

  • American, Level 2, West

Department

American Art before 1950

American Art-Union, distributed as a prize in the annual raffle (December 19, 1845) Daniel C. Waterman (1802-1871), New Bedford, Mass. (received from the above) Anna Waterman Crane (daughter of the above), Pittsfield, Mass., by gift, circa 1856 Frank Lamberton Stevens, North Hoosick, New York, circa 1910 Lois Stevens MacGruer (1892-1966), North Hoosick, New York, by descent, 1941 Malcolm Stevens MacGruer (1921-2016), Greenwich, Conn., by gift, 1963 Purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA), 2017-present

Tompkins H. Matteson, Spirit of '76, 1845, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 2017.59.