The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 28, 2022

Tuning

1867

William Sidney Mount

(American, 1807-1868)

America

Graphite

Support: Cream(3) wove paper

Sheet: 9.7 x 16.2 cm (3 13/16 x 6 3/8 in.)

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1946.1711

Location

not on view

Description

William Sidney Mount was the first major American painter of genre, or scenes of everyday life. While not directly related, the musical subject matter of two of these drawings, Tuning and Catching a Tune, brings to mind Mount's famous painting, The Power of Music, which is on view gallery 231.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in graphite: W.S.M. ; by artist, upper left, in graphite: Oct. 67 - / tuning -

Exhibition history

Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4/19/98 - 7/12/98. "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection."

America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985).

American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1946.1711