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Exhibition History“William Sidney Mount: Painter of American Life,” New York Historical Society, New York, NY, August 14 – October 25, 1998; The Frick Art Museum, New York, NY, November 19, 1998 – January 10, 1999, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, February 5 – April 4, 1999, no cat. no.
"Perfect Harmony: The Musical Art and Life of William Sidney Mount," Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, May 25, 2019 - September 8, 2019.
BibliographyAmerican and European Works on Paper from the Estate of E. Maurice Bloch, Part 1 (auct. cat. Christies, New York, NY June 19, 1990), n.p., cat. no. 107, ill.
Deborah J. Johnson et al, William Sidney Mount Painter of American Life (exh. cat. New York, NY: The American Federation of the Arts, 1998), pp. 56, 150, fig. 48, ill.
Leo G. Mazow, “Sensing America” in American Art: Smithsonian American Museum, Vol. 24, no. 3 (Fall 2010), p. 2.
Artist
William Sidney Mount
(1807 - 1868)
Trying To Back Out Without Any Regard to Snout
Date1842
MediumPencil on woven paper
DimensionsFramed: 15 5/8 × 17 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. (39.7 × 44.8 × 2.9 cm)
Sight: 7 1/4 × 9 3/8 in. (18.4 × 23.8 cm)
Object numberN0106.1990
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label Text"Trying to Back Out" is a sketch done in preparation for "Ringing the Pig." The scene depicted in Ringing the Pig is an accurate representation of putting a ring in a pig’s nose to keep it from digging under fences. Mount achieved strikingly realistic poses and gestures, particularly in the face of the pig in the background at the right. This painting also evokes sound, as one can clearly imagine the high-pitched squeal of the pig.Exhibition History“William Sidney Mount: Painter of American Life,” New York Historical Society, New York, NY, August 14 – October 25, 1998; The Frick Art Museum, New York, NY, November 19, 1998 – January 10, 1999, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, February 5 – April 4, 1999, no cat. no.
"Perfect Harmony: The Musical Art and Life of William Sidney Mount," Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, May 25, 2019 - September 8, 2019.
BibliographyAmerican and European Works on Paper from the Estate of E. Maurice Bloch, Part 1 (auct. cat. Christies, New York, NY June 19, 1990), n.p., cat. no. 107, ill.
Deborah J. Johnson et al, William Sidney Mount Painter of American Life (exh. cat. New York, NY: The American Federation of the Arts, 1998), pp. 56, 150, fig. 48, ill.
Leo G. Mazow, “Sensing America” in American Art: Smithsonian American Museum, Vol. 24, no. 3 (Fall 2010), p. 2.
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