THEY CAME TO AMERICA
(“Immigrant Art” in the USA)
(“Immigrant Art” in the USA)
- de Saint-Mémin: Mrs. Cummings
- Moran: The Rapids
- van Beest: Two Fishermen
- Moran: The Passaic
- van Elten: The Deserted Mill
- Mielatz: Out of Commission
- Yeats: Rye, July 4, 1908
- Botke: Beside a Valley
- Nakamizo: Heron Lifting Off
- Charlot: Woman Lifting Rebozo
- Constant: Still Life with Pears
- Bormann: New York Aquarium
- Castellon: Waiting Women
- Takal: Man with a Cigar
- Lozowick: The White Spider
- Sangster: Niagara Falls
- Lovet-Lorski: Winged Man
- Sterner: The Penitent
- Hamilton: Feeding the Sparrows
- Sandzén: Mountain Lake
- Lucioni: Barn in the Hills
- Binder: Moses
- Eby: Goin’ Home
- Farrer: Sunset, Gowanus Bay
- Geritz: Mae Murray
- Grossman: Rain on the Square
- Sherman: Quadrille Band
- Brockhurst: Una
- Gottlieb: Low Tide
- Hoffbauer: Studies
- Oppenheimer: New York at Night
- Robinson: Horse Auction
- Bluemner: Winfield, Long Island
- Mora: Mother and Child
- Drewes: Rotterdam
- Fiene: Barns
- Marsh, Coney Island Beach
- Moser: Sunrise
- Eichenberg: Seven Deadly Sins
- Hayter, Greeting Card for 1945
- Kuniyoshi: Taxco, Mexico
- Roth: Street in Siena
- Winkler: Chow Seller
- Ruzicka: East River, Evening
- Reinhardt: Intermission
- Kadar: The Nativity
- Weber: Mountain Scene
- Schultheiss: The Flight into Egypt
- Walkowitz: Two Figures
- MacLaughlan: The Great Oak
- Auerbach-Levy: Cabby
- Neufeldt: Rhode Island
- Dolice: Off Asbury Park
- Friedlander: Brooklyn Bridge
- Hankins: Arrangement
Mrs. Cummings
Engraving and aquatint, 1797, Miles (National Portrait Gallery) 206, 72 x 68 mm. . Fine impression on wove paper with good margins, inscribed in pencil verso "Mrs. Cummings, 1797." Saint-Mémin was born in Dijon, France and died in the same city. But from 1796, he, in conjunction with Thomas Bluget de Valdenuit (1763-1846), owned and operated a portrait engraving studio in New York City, and later, by himself, in Philadelphia. Singly and together they produced hundreds of portraits of Americans, some of eminent figures, like Washington and Jefferson, but many of ordinary citizens of the new country. The portraits were almost always profiles, produced by the physiognotrace method, and were acclaimed as exceptional likenesses. Valdenuit returned to France in 1797, Saint-Mémin in 1814. Mrs. Cummings, also known as Phoebe Harisson Cuming (1768-1821) was the wife of Fortescue Cuming, who later (1810) published an account of his travels down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and through Louisiana and Florida. Rare.