The American Art-Union: Plan of the Institution, List of its Officers, and Catalogue of Paintings, and other Works of Art ... No. 5
- 16pp
- New York: Snowden & Prall, Printers, 1847
New York: Snowden & Prall, Printers, 1847. 16pp. Stitched. 16pp. Published semi-monthly, the catalogue includes a number of important American or Hudson River school artists, including Thomas Doughty, Asher B. Durand, George Innes, George Bingham, Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Copsey and others. Founded in 1839, the American Art-Union was a subscription-based organization whose goal was to enlighten and educate an American public to a national art, while providing a support system for the viewing and sales of art “executed by artists in the United States or by American artists abroad."
Of particular note is the listing in the catalogue of Durand's The Indian's Vespers and Bingham's the Jolly Flatboatmen.
Of particular note is the listing in the catalogue of Durand's The Indian's Vespers and Bingham's the Jolly Flatboatmen.