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Metadata
Object Name |
Painting |
Artist |
Rice, Philip |
Date |
1934 |
Title |
[Historical mural design] |
Description |
Oil painting with gold leaf highlights on canvas. Possibly a model for a mural. Historic scenes and people from different eras, including (left to right): Aaron Burr, Governor Daniel D. Tompkins, George W. Curtis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edwin Markham, Peter Stuyvesant, Benjamin Franklin, and Giovanni da Verrazzano. Ten Native American men stand and sit in the foreground. An American flag flies in the center of the image, above an illustration of a seal with inscription "RICHMOND / N. YORK / COUNTY." The painting is signed lower right: "Philip Rice - 34." Not framed. (Keywords: New York City, Twentieth Century) |
Acquisition |
Gift of Richard Rice |
Earliest Date |
1934 |
Latest Date |
1934 |
Subjects |
Murals |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Art |
Associated People |
Curtis, George William Tompkins, Daniel D. Markham, Edwin |
Catalog Number |
51.017.0001 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Barker Welfare Foundation, February 2019. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |