Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Panic of 1869
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Charles Knoll (American painter, active ca. 1860-1880)
Location:
repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 1956.015
Location Note:
5600 Mayflower Hill
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
ca. 1870 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
87.63 cm (height) x 69.22 cm (width)
Subjects:
apparel; decorative arts; genre; folk art; Gilded Age; Victorian interior; parlor
Description:
This painting was featured in the traveling exhibit (2010-2011) "Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art." Americans weathered at least four financial panics in the 19th century, in 1857, 1869, 1873 and 1893. This was the other side effect of the Gilded Age and rapid industrialization. The male vs. female experience is shown in Charles Knoll's "Panic of 1869" depicting a ruined businessman in a fashionable parlor hiding his face from the news while his wife, a baby at her feet, holds his hand and looks away. Knoll appears to be self-taught as the perspective is inaccurate. (Source: National Public Radio [website]; www.npr.org)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-KNOLLC-CA-P-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Panic of 1869