Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Panic of 1869
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Panic of 1869
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Charles Knoll (American painter, active ca. 1860-1880)
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Location:
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repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 1956.015
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Location Note:
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5600 Mayflower Hill
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GPS:
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+44.565-69.660833
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Date:
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ca. 1870 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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87.63 cm (height) x 69.22 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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apparel; decorative arts; genre; folk art; Gilded Age; Victorian interior; parlor
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Description:
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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)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-KNOLLC-CA-P-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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