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Exhibition History“Art of the Everyman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014.
Artist
Unidentified Artist
(American)
Related Person
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus Landing Upon the Island of St. Salvador
Date1820-1825
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsSight: 20 × 14 1/4 in. (50.8 × 36.2 cm)
Object numberN0091.1961
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThis decorative and imaginative picture combines Christopher Columbus' landing (possibly based on a print) with other patriotic symbols such as the eagle from the Great Seal of the United States, flags and military accoutrements, and the slogans "E Pluribus Unum" and "Where Liberty dwells there is my country." For generations of European Americans, Columbus' discovery of the New World was celebrated for providing a land of opportunity, prosperity, and freedom from economic and political oppression in Europe.Exhibition History“Art of the Everyman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014.
On View
Not on viewc. 1795-1820
