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Exhibition History“Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York, 1700-1875,” Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, June 14 – September 15, 1958; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, September 26 – October 21, 1958; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, October 30 – November 20, 1958; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, November 30 – December 21, 1958; Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, NY, January 4 – January 25, 1959; New York Historical Society, New York, NY, February 1 – February 28, 1959.
“Domestic Manners of the Americans,” Museum of Early American Folk Art, New York, NY, December 5, 1967 – February 4, 1968.
“American Treasures from the Fenimore Art Museum,” The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, February 20 – April 16, 2004.
Bibliography“American Historical Paintings…,” in American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York Sale Catalogue (January 27, 1938), p. 9, cat. no 12, ill.
“Famed Browere Are on View in Catskill Until March 15,” in Catskill Examiner, Vol. 20 No. 35 (Catskill, NY: 1958), n.p.
“Catskill Browere Exhibit Praised by Institute Head,” in Catskill Examiner (March 20, 1958), n.p.
“Catskill Scene Among Paintings In Art Exhibit at Cooperstown,” in Catskill Examiner (June 19, 1958), n.p.
Smith, Mabel P., “Unpublished Paintings by Alburtis Del Orient Browere,” in Art in America, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Fall, 1958), pp. 68-71.
“Focus On Catskill, 1844, And Browere Masks For Important Cooperstown Museum Exhibit,” in The Daily Mail, Catskill, NY (October 16, 1978), n.p., ill.
Johns, Elizabeth, American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991), p.154, fig. 40, ill.
Artist
Albertus del Orient Browere
(1814 - 1887)
Mrs. McCormick's General Store
Date1844
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 20 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. (51.1 × 61.3 cm)
Object numberN0387.1955
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextWhile young women were rarely rendered humorously in genre painting, older women were often the butt of a joke. Browere's hometown of Catskill, New York is the setting in which young boys plague a shopkeeper by shoplifting from her outdoor display. Much of Catskill's present-day business district remains the same as Browere's depiction, although a brick building now stands in the place of Mrs. McCormick's store. Browere's repertoire included sculpture, portraiture, landscapes, and later sign and wagon painting, but he is best remembered for his genre paintings derived from American literature.Exhibition History“Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York, 1700-1875,” Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, June 14 – September 15, 1958; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, September 26 – October 21, 1958; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, October 30 – November 20, 1958; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, November 30 – December 21, 1958; Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, NY, January 4 – January 25, 1959; New York Historical Society, New York, NY, February 1 – February 28, 1959.
“Domestic Manners of the Americans,” Museum of Early American Folk Art, New York, NY, December 5, 1967 – February 4, 1968.
“American Treasures from the Fenimore Art Museum,” The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, February 20 – April 16, 2004.
Bibliography“American Historical Paintings…,” in American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York Sale Catalogue (January 27, 1938), p. 9, cat. no 12, ill.
“Famed Browere Are on View in Catskill Until March 15,” in Catskill Examiner, Vol. 20 No. 35 (Catskill, NY: 1958), n.p.
“Catskill Browere Exhibit Praised by Institute Head,” in Catskill Examiner (March 20, 1958), n.p.
“Catskill Scene Among Paintings In Art Exhibit at Cooperstown,” in Catskill Examiner (June 19, 1958), n.p.
Smith, Mabel P., “Unpublished Paintings by Alburtis Del Orient Browere,” in Art in America, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Fall, 1958), pp. 68-71.
“Focus On Catskill, 1844, And Browere Masks For Important Cooperstown Museum Exhibit,” in The Daily Mail, Catskill, NY (October 16, 1978), n.p., ill.
Johns, Elizabeth, American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991), p.154, fig. 40, ill.
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