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Artist/Maker
Mary Brigham Bemus
(American, 1849 - 1924)
Date1879
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 35.6 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Frame: 48.6 × 41 × 8.3 cm (19 1/8 × 16 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Katharine Brigham Callanen
Object number1997.10.5
Not on view
DescriptionStill life depicting a compote of peaches with green background.
The artist, Mary Eliza Brigham Bemus, was the sister of Professor Albert Perry Brigham, a renowned geographer and geologist with ties to Colgate University, Harvard, Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin, Oxford University, the University of London, and the Library of Congress.
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Additional Details
Provenance
1997: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by bequest of Katharine Brigham Callanen.
Signature
Recto, lower right corner: "M.B. Bemus 1879"
Inscribed
Verso, lower left (stamp): "painted by Flora Winegar Brigham in 1870s"
Flora Winegar Brigham
Date: c. 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1997.10.6
Flora Winegar Brigham
Date: 1885
Medium: Hard paste porcelain with enamel decoration
Object number: 1997.10.1.1-6
Mary Brigham Bemus
Date: unknown
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1995.13
Edwin W. Dickinson
Date: February - March 1940
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 2016.8.1
Unknown artist
Date: c. 883-859 BCE
Medium: Gypsum with remnants of red pigment
Object number: 1868.5
Tony Feher
Date: 1996
Medium: Plastic bottles, water, food dye, wire and rope
Object number: 2012.3.4
Unknown artist
Date: c. 350-325 BCE
Medium: Terracotta with slip
Object number: 1929.44