Van Brunt Homestead
James Ryder van Brunt
American Art
Throughout his career, the Brooklyn artist James Ryder van Brunt specialized in watercolors of local historic sites, farmhouses, and churches painted in a conventional, topographical style. His subject matter reflected a personal interest in the region’s Dutch heritage; his own ancestors had settled here in the seventeenth century. This picture depicts his grandfather’s homestead near what is now Third Avenue between Eighth and Eleventh streets (the Gowanus Creek is at the left).
MEDIUM
Opaque and transparent watercolor and graphite on wove paper mounted to pulpboard
DATES
ca. 1865
DIMENSIONS
14 3/4 x 18 in. (37.5 x 45.7 cm)
Frame: 18 x 24 x 1 1/2 in. (45.7 x 61 x 3.8 cm) (show scale)
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed on cardboard backing on frame: "An early view of rural Bklyn. / "The Van Brunt Homestead" / At Lip Denton's Mill, at the water's edge / By James Rider Van Brunt 1820-1913"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
1999.112
CREDIT LINE
Bequest of Miriam Godofsky
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
James Ryder van Brunt (American, 1820â1916). Van Brunt Homestead, ca. 1865. Opaque and transparent watercolor and graphite on wove paper mounted to pulpboard, 14 3/4 x 18 in. (37.5 x 45.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Miriam Godofsky, 1999.112 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1999.112_transpc002_edited.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 1999.112_transpc002_edited.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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