On view
American Art
Wilmerding Pavilion
Philip & Nancy Anschutz Gallery
Wilmerding Pavilion
Philip & Nancy Anschutz Gallery
The Old, Old Story,
1882
Junius Brutus Stearns, 1810–1885; born Arlington, VT; died New York, NY
y1964-180
Information
Title
The Old, Old Story
Dates
1882
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sheet (sight): 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 1/16 in.)
frame: 72.4 × 62.4 × 4.8 cm (28 1/2 × 24 9/16 × 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Class of 1906, for the Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1964-180
Place Made
North America, United States, New York
Signatures
Signed on rock, lower right: J. B. Stearns, N.A. 82.
Culture
Type
Acquired by C. O. von Kienbusch, by 1964; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1964.
- Patrick J. Kelleher, "College museum notes", Art Journal 24, no. 4 (Summer, 1965): p. 356-379., p. 362
- "Acquisitions of 1964", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 24, no. 1 (1965): p. 20-23., p. 22
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Millard F. Rogers, Jr., "Fishing subjects by Junius Brutus Stearns", Antiques 98 (1970).
, p. 246; p. 250, fig. 11 - Frances Follin Jones, "Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Class of 1906", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 36, no. 2 (1977): p. 22-23., p. 23
- "The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr., Memorial Collection," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 36, no. 2 (1977): p. 24-32., p. 31
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 248 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 109 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013)
