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Exhibition History"History of the New York State Legislature," Albany Insitute of History and Art, March 14, 1977 - May 15, 1977.
"Faces of the City, Public and Private: Albany Portraits from Three Centuries," University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, September 2, 1986 - October 19, 1986.
Artist
Asa W. Twitchell
(1820 - 1904)
Thurlow Weed
Datec. 1840
MediumOil
DimensionsSight: 30 1/2 × 30 1/4 in. (77.5 × 76.8 cm)
Object numberN0351.1955
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThurlow Weed was a 19th-century politician who also established and edited the "Albany Evening Journal." He spent some time in Cooperstown, where he worked for publisher H. and E. Phinney. Weed was well-known and politically influential, and often editorialized his opinions quite forthrightly. He frequently attacked James Fenimore Cooper's "savage strictures upon America" and said that Cooper's novels were "vindicating 'whole-hog Jacksonism." Cooper was an easy target for Weed because he was a Democrat, while Weed was a Whig. Weed, however, was sued for libel in twelve different counties by Cooper. Five of these suits went to court, where Weed was obliged to compensate Cooper monetarily for damages.Exhibition History"History of the New York State Legislature," Albany Insitute of History and Art, March 14, 1977 - May 15, 1977.
"Faces of the City, Public and Private: Albany Portraits from Three Centuries," University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, September 2, 1986 - October 19, 1986.
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