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Joseph Rusling Meeker

Landscape (Bayou)

1879

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  • Artist Joseph Rusling Meeker (American, 1827–1887)
  • Title Landscape (Bayou)
  • Date 1879
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 22 1/8 x 34 1/8 in.
  • Credit line Gift of J. Harold Pettus, 1965
  • Object number WU 4264

Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/09/2016 - 01/15/2017

American Places: Painting the Landscape in the Nineteenth Century
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/20/2013 - 01/06/2014

Green Acres: Neocolonialism in the U.S.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/11/1992 - 11/01/1992

Nature and the Figure
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/09/1983 - 03/06/1983

The Way We See It: America by Americans 1850–1980
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 10/10/1982 - 11/07/1982

Joseph Rusling Meeker: Images of the Mississippi Delta
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, Alabama), 09/05/1981 - 10/25/1981
Fine Arts Museum of the South (Mobile, Alabama), 11/01/1981 - 12/13/1981
Historic New Orleans Collection (New Orleans, Louisiana), 12/20/1981 - 03/08/1982

Salon de Resserre: Selections of European and American Art of the Nineteenth Century from the Washington University Collections
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 02/01/1970 - 03/06/1970

1965
J. Harold Pettus

Inscription [on verso at LL corner of canvas, written in brown paint:] JRM [all letters overlapping] 1879

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