The Dow Gallery of American Arts is a four thousand square foot exhibition hall designed to showcase selections from the Museum's large and growing American collection of furniture, painting, watercolors, drawings, and the decorative arts including silver and glass. The gallery is interpreted chronologically with emphasis on the Pilgrim Century, the Eighteenth Century, and the American Victorian Period.
Text panels discuss cultural history, subject matter, and specific relationships that exist among many forms on exhibit in the gallery. Interpretive labels both identify and discuss each individual work on exhibition. Some of the many unique treasures on exhibit include rare 17th Century New England Tulip and Aster chests, court cupboards, chairs in the Flemish and William and Mary styles, and pewter; impressive Philadelphia highboys and lowboys, tea tables, card tables and suites of fancy American Chippendale chairs; carved rosewood 19th Century Belter and Meeks chairs, parlor tables, game tables from New York, Boston and Charleston and marble topped Renaissance period furniture by John Jeliff from New Jersey.
The Painting collection includes important examples of portraiture by Gilbert Stuart, Joseph Blackburn, William Jennys, Thomas Sully, Jacob Eicholz, Samuel F.B. Morse, Samuel Waldo, and Charles Loring Elliott. Landscape examples include work by George Bonfield, Edward Moran, Francis S. Frost, Jasper Cropsey, John Casilear, William Louis Sonntag, Frank Shapleigh, William Aiken Walker, George Inness, John Joseph Enneking, Elihu Vedder and Asher B. Durand. Still-lifes and seascapes include major examples by Raphaelle Peale, John James Audubon, William Mason Brown, M. Frederick H. De Hass, Frederick Judd Waugh, Martin Johnson Heade, Antonio Jacobsen, James Buttersworth, and George Curtis.
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