About the Artwork
Spirit of '76
1845
Tompkins H. Matteson
1813-1884
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Framed: 37 5/16 × 43 3/4 × 2 1/4 inches (94.8 × 111.1 × 5.7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
2017.59
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
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
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Tompkins H. Matteson, Spirit of '76, 1845, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 2017.59.
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