Artist: Erastus Dow Palmer (1817 - 1904)
Nationality: American
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Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Erastus Dow Palmer was a self-taught artist who spent the majority of his life in his hometown of Albany, New York. Despite his reluctance to travel, he became a successful sculptor and the most famous sculptor of his generation who did not study and work in Europe. He made a career creating portrait busts and religious bas-reliefs. His most famous sculpture is the White Captive, which depicted a young girl who has been captures by Indians but is saved by her Christian faith. In the 1860’s, Palmer began fashioning his sculptures out of bronze rather than wood.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Erastus Salisbury Field - Paul Smith Palmer 1835-1838 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Erastus Salisbury Field - Mrs. Paul Smith Palmer and Her Twins 1835-1838 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Samuel Palmer "Christmas" etching in Samuel Palmer, a memoir by A. H. Palmer etching 19th century
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Alfred Herbert Palmer Portrait of J.C. Hook 19th century
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Frances F. Palmer "Wooding Up" on the Mississippi Lithograph with hand coloring 1863
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Frances F. Palmer American Farm Scenes. No. 1. from a set of 4 Lithograph with hand coloring 1853
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Frances F. Palmer The Farmers Home - Harvest Lithograph with hand coloring 1864
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Samuel Palmer The Bellman ET 1879
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Samuel Palmer An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) book with 5 etchings and 9 photogravures after drawings 1883
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Samuel Palmer Moonlit Scene graphite 1863
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Frances F. Palmer American Country Life: Pleasures of Winter Lithograph with hand coloring 1855
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Samuel Palmer The Willow ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Skylark ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Sepulchre ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Cypress Grove etching 1883
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Frances F. Palmer "Rounding a Bend" on the Mississippi. The parting Salute Color lithograph with hand coloring 1866
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Samuel Palmer The Willow etching 19th century
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Samuel Palmer Moeris and Galatea ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Rising Moon ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Early Ploughman ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Cypress Grove ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Homeward Star ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Herdsman, or The Weary Ploughman 1865
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Samuel Palmer "O fortunate old man...",first illustration for Eclogue 1, opposite page 18 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "O fortunate old man...",second illustration for Eclogue 1, opposite page 20 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Thy very cradle quickens...", illustration for Eclogue 4, opposite page 48 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Anders Leonard Zorn - Mrs. Potter Palmer 1893 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Swedish
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Samuel Palmer Opening the Fold; or, Early Morning ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Herdsman's Cottage; or sunset ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer "Come fairest, if thou care for me at all..," illustration for Eclogue 7, opposite page 70 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Pan came, Arcadian shepherd ever good",second illustration for Eclogue10, opposite page 94 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "And while the troubled moon shrunk in and out...", second illustration for Eclogue 8, opposite page 82 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Ripe apples are our supper...",third illustration for Eclogue 1, opposite page 22 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Pan came, Arcadian shepherd ever good...", first illustration for Eclogue10, opposite page 92 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Tis gentle Phillis I love best of all...", illustration for Eclogue 3, opposite page 40 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Untimely lost and by a cruel deathä", illustration for Eclogue 5, opposite page 54 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer Opening the Fold; or, Early Morning ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Sleeping Shepard; Early Morning ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer "Scarce with her rosy fingers had the dawn...", first illustration for Eclogue 8, opposite page 76 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Then, to our goats at milking time return..", illustration for Eclogue 9, opposite page 88 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "But see, the weary-pacing oxen, slow...", illustration for Eclogue 2, opposite page 30 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "_till Vesper bade the swain...", illustration for Eclogue 6, opposite page 64 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer The Herdsman's Cottage or Sunset etching from a steel plate 1850
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Samuel Palmer The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) book with 12 etchings 1889
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Marcus Geeraerts the Elder - Sir Henry Palmer, Knight 1586 oil on panel Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Flemish
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Abbott Handerson Thayer - Anne Mumford Palmer 1879 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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George Romney - Portrait of Richard Palmer 1787 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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Sir Guyon Tempted by Phaedra
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Erastus Salisbury Field - Mr. Pease c. 1837 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Erastus Salisbury Field - Man with Vial c. 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Erastus Salisbury Field - The Taj Mahal c. 1860-1880 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Erastus Salisbury Field - Ark of the Covenant c. 1865-1880 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Samuel Palmer Lycidas, illustration to the poem Lycidas, opposite page 2 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel Palmer The Curfew, first illustration to the poem Il Penseroso, opposite page 22 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Erastus Salisbury Field - Leverett Pond c. 1860-1880 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Erastus Salisbury Field - Wife of Man with Vial c. 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Erastus Salisbury Field - Mrs. Harlow A. Pease c. 1837 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Erastus Salisbury Field - Biel Le Doyt 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Samuel Palmer The Bellman, second illustration to the poem Il Penseroso, opposite page 26 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel Palmer The Prospect, second illustration to the poem L'Allegro, opposite page 14 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (25)
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International Visions Gallery: Forty Four: An Inugral Exhibition
The International Visions Art Gallery's mission is to exhibit and promote multi-cultural original work by national and international artists. International Visions presents visual art exhibitions and special cultural traditions in dance, music, th...
California Museum of Photography: Mediating Site/Mediated Vision
Mediating Site/Mediated Vision looks at various ways in which photographic work makes the mediation of technology apparent and brings the viewer's attention back to the apparatus itself. The exhibition is curated by Kate Palmer, a second year grad...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Call for Artists: e-Media Gallery calling for for NET ART WORKS, CD-ROM & DVD
The small Gallery, which features a wooden facade with a cut-out for the mouse and the monitor screen, acts as a 'digital portal' at CCP and is visited by hundreds of visitors each week. CCP promotes all exhibitions on its full colour monthl...
Lawrence Gallery Portland: New Works by Painter Ann Ruttan
Patron’s of Ruttan’s work will be dazzled by her new collection as they are revealed in the main gallery on 1st Thursday, September 1st. Those seeking Ruttan’s work for the first time, should look forward to large scale canvases which mirror t...
Fuller Museum of Art: Environmental Arts, Inc Presents Sixth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
For the past six years, the Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition has been located on the grounds of the Fuller Museum of Art where a path, through twenty-two acres of wooded area, was created for the establishment of sites for permanent as well as tempora...
IAO Gallery: Outart Festival Of Oklahoma
The 4 selected were artists that showed a level of presentation that was superb, Richard Ray Whitman said. Clayton Keyes, David Cockerell, Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya and Mark Maxey were selected for this prestigious award. Over ...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Alan Reynolds: 50 Years after the Royal College of Art
A quest for structure and equilibrium has always been at the heart of Reynolds' work. His engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by Constable and Samuel Palmer ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: EXODUS: between promise and fulfilment
Photographs from the Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai 1869 by Sgt. James McDonald (1822-1885) David Austen
Vija Celmins
Ian Davenport
Helmut Federle
Callum Innes
John McCracken
John Zurier Sgt.McDo...
Agora Gallery: Altered States of Reality
Mary Mansey’s beautifully abstract photographs examine the interplay of light and color as they reflect against the rippling surface of water.  These reflections poetically mirror the artist’s own emotions experienced at the time at which each pho...
Singapore Art Museum: Photographica Australis
WITTY, OFTEN BEAUTIFUL AND SOMETIMES UNNERVING, photography is amongst the most fascinating Australian art being made today. The background for the present confidencelies in the success of artists such as Tracey Moffatt and Bill Henson, who hav...
Seattle Art Museum: Hero/Antihero: What Heroes Are Made Of
Hero/Anti-Hero will examine a wide range of personalities including the Roman Emperor Claudius, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and Ulysses S. Grant; characters who have inspired dreams, ambivalence, and even hostility. Among the artists represente...
Smart Museum of Art: Critical Mass
* Training: They usually hold degrees from art schools and many also teach or administrate at cultural institutions. * Sensibilities: They pursue an ethical, self-reflective practice and are committed to social engagement. They conside...
Brian Gross Fine Art: Robert Arneson: Political Drawings
Arneson addressed the threat of global annihilation and the destructiveness of war, and often caricatured world leaders to highlight their shortcomings.  In the masterful drawings, Club Social, Field Trip, and Special Forces, Arneson depicts night...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Picturing the Banjo
"For more than two centuries, the banjo has played an integral role in American history and culture and has inspired an eclectic array of artists," said Sarah Cash, the Corcoran's Bechhoefer Curator of American Art. "A highlight of the Corcoran...
Blaffer Gallery, University of Texas: Single Channel: Collaborating with the Moving Image
"Exhibiting films and videos as visual installations alongside formal screenings in a gallery setting is something new for Microcinema and we are excited about the prospects for the viewers as well as the filmmakers," comments Patrick Kwiatkowsk...
Brian Gross Fine Art: Robert Arneson: From the 60s
Diet Cola and Flower Pot are quintessential examples of Arneson's use of the ordinary objects that he embraced as expressive devices. Unlike the cool aesthetic of work by Pop artists such as Johns and Warhol, Arneson's objects are formally express...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: A New Kind of Historical Evidence: Highlighting an Extraordinary Range of Photographic Practice
The title of the exhibition comes from a 1967 Harvard Alumni Bulletin article reporting the establishment of the Carpenter Center collection and heralding photography as “a new kind of historic evidence.” The collection contains some of photograph...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the Nineteenth Century
During the 19th century, in both European and American art, the landscape emerged as a subject of profound significance. As industry flourished, many artists turned to nature as an escape. Nature Sublime will examine the ways that the major artist...
TransCultural Exchange: Call for Artists: Tile Project, Destination - The World

For more information please click here. History of the Tile Project: On May 14, 2004 TransCultural Exchange launched
Carnegie Museum of Art: Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by Julius Shulman
Shulman‚s photographs will be on display at the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, September 19, 2009ˆJanuary 31, 2010. The exhibition focuses on Shulman‚s encyclopedic documentation of progressive architecture in the Palm Sprin...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Four Exhibitions Open Today: THE ART BAR by Nat & Ali, Matthew Sleeth's TOUR OF DUTY, Jack Sweetman and James Cecil's LOCATION, John Tonkin's MENISCUS
Nat & Ali Present
THE ART BAR
Gallery One Collaborative artist team Nat & Ali present THE ART BAR, a mixed media installation/event transforming CCP's front gallery into a public bar and artist hang-out. Surrounded by atmospheric l...
Gabarron Foundation - Carriage House Center for the Arts: I Have a Dream: An Homage to Martin Luther King Jr.
Apart from Theodore W. Kheel, big thinkers and writers participate in this homage: Maya Angelou, Zygmunt Bauman, Owen H. Brooks, Xavier Bru de Sala, Peter N. Carrol, Ernesto Castro, Josep Cuní, David Cortright, Joan Duran, Mohamed ElBaradei, Valen...
Citibank: Kathryn Henneman: Empowering the Dream
The passion with which she has embraced her new surroundings is exceeded by her passion for her craft. “Painting is the rhythm of my life,” Henneman says. The abstract impressionist artist has been painting professionally for the last 20 y...
Nouri Gallery: Kathryn Henneman: Envision the Dream
The abstract impressionist artist has been painting professionally for the last 25 years. An Arizona native, Henneman has been interested and adept at art ever since she was a child. But it wasn’t until 1982 that she began to dabble in art. She ha...

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