Tag: 19th century dog paintings

Geraldine R. Dodge Collection at William Secord Gallery

Beb by George Earl

William Secord always has a something special during the week of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in NYC. This year, over 150 animal-themed works (mostly dogs) from the Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Collection are on view at his gallery. Sales from the exhibition benefit the organization founded by Mrs. Dodge in 1939, Saint Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center in Madison, New Jersey.

Mrs. Dodge is a legend in the purebred dog world. She founded the Morris and Essex Kennel Club in 1927, and bred and imported some of America’s most important English Cocker Spaniels, German Shepherds, Bloodhounds, Pointers, Setters and Schipperkes, among others. She is also the first woman to judge Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. You can view the exhibition online. Here are some of my favorites:

Donald by Reuben Ward Binks

Captain, Corporal, Charm, and Cling by Reuben Ward Binks

English Setter & Pointer in the Field by Gustav Muss-Arnolt

Laying Down the Law by Edwin Landseer

The Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Collection at William Secord Gallery runs until March 24, 2012.

February 13, 2012
The Artist’s Wife and his Setter Dog by Thomas Eakins

The Artist’s Wife and His Setter Dog by Thomas Eakins, ca. 1884-89

Dallas Art News reports:

The Amon Carter Museum has been loaned two American masterpieces from the Metroploltian Museum of Art in New York. The paintings are The Artist’s Wife and His Setter Dog (1884-89) by Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly (1880) by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). The paintings will be on view at the Amon Carter Museum through January, 25, 2010.“Both
are intimate portraits of the artists’ loved ones, although the artists
approached their subjects quite differently,” says Rebecca Lawton,
curator of paintings and sculpture at the Amon Carter Museum. “Eakins
depicts his wife and setter Harry with an uncompromising realism, while
Cassatt portrays her ailing sister Lydia with the delicacy and
directness of the Impressionists’ brushstroke.”

While these two paintings are in Fort Worth, the Carter has in return loaned two of its own masterpieces to the Met, Swimming (1895) by Thomas Eakins and Idle Hours
(ca. 1894) by William Merritt Chase. Both paintings are in the Met’s
exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915.

The Amon Carter will host free gallery talks about the Eakins and Cassatt paintings on November 12 at 6 p.m.

Lovely.

November 3, 2009
The William Secord Gallery: 19th Century Dog Paintings Exhibition

Brindle French Bulldog Head Study With Collar by Monica Gray

The William Secord Gallery, the premier gallery specializing in fine 19th century dog and animal paintings is holding a special exhibition to coincide with the Westminster Dog Show. Nineteenth Century Dog Paintings opens on February 9 and runs until March 22, 2008. If you can’t make it to New York, view the wonderful paintings online.

Here are some of my favorites.

Boubus by John Emms

Best Friends by Samuel Fulton

Gordon Setter by Frank Paton

Jumbo, Cherie, Salembo, Chloe and Topsy by the British School

Nellie by R. Brown

Dachshunds At Rest by Ludwig Voltz

William Secord is the world authority on nineteenth century dog painting and the author of three excellent books on the subject; Dog Painting 1840-1940, Dog Painting, The European Breeds, and A Breed Apart, The Art Collections of The American Kennel Club

For collectors, read what Smart Money and Country Living say about The William Secord Gallery and the hot dog art market.

Information:

William Secord Gallery
52 East 76 Street, New York, NY 10021
212.249.0075

February 3, 2008