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Paper and Objects
The Milch Cow,
ca. 1850
American
y1958-72
Information
Title
The Milch Cow
Dates
ca. 1850
Medium
Oil on wood, pine shingle (or section of clapboard)
Dimensions
14.3 x 32 cm (5 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
frame: 18.1 x 35.2 x 2.3 cm (7 1/8 x 13 7/8 x 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Duff Balken, Class of 1897
Object Number
y1958-72
Culture
Type
Acquired by Edward Duff Balken (1874-1960), North Egremont (MA), by 1947 [1]; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1958. [1] The painting was exhibited in Pittsburgh in 1947 with other American paintings from Balken’s collection (American provincial paintings, 1790-1877: from the collection of Edward Duff Balken: galleries E and F, January 9 through February 23, 1947, (Pittsburgh, PA: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 1947, no. 63).
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American provincial paintings, 1790-1877: from the collection of Edward Duff Balken: galleries E and F, January 9 through February 23, 1947, (Pittsburgh, PA: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 1947).
, no. 18 -
American folk art: a collection of paintings presented in 1958 by Edward Duff Balken of the Class of 1897 to the Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1958).
, no. 57 - "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 18, no. 1 (1959): p. 40-42., p. 40
- "Another generation's folk art: Edward Duff Balken and his collection of American provincial paintings and drawings: appendix I: an inventory of works from the home of Edward Duff Balken", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 29-30., p. 30
- Colleen Cowles Heslip and Charlotte Emans Moore, "Catalogue of the collection," in "A window into collecting American folk art: the Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 31-162., p. 140-142; cat. no. 54
