Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina
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Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3400
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1779 Warwickshire, England - 1851 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for: Marine, ship portrait, and landscape painting.
Born in England, Thomas Birch became the earliest marine painter specialist in America, and also was noted for landscapes, although they were described by art historian James Flexner has having... Read full biography
Born in England, Thomas Birch became the earliest marine painter specialist in America, and also was noted for landscapes, although they were described by art historian James Flexner has having "never transcended the illustrator's tradition." (187). Many of these landscapes were snowscenes, and... Read full biography
Born in England, Thomas Birch became the earliest marine painter specialist in America, and also was noted for landscapes, although they were described by art historian James Flexner has having "never transcended the illustrator's tradition." (187). Many of these landscapes were snowscenes, and several depicted the Hudson River Valley. Thomas Birch was the son of William Russell Birch, an engraver and painter of enamel miniatures. They immigrated in 1794 to the United States and worked together... Read full biography
Born in England, Thomas Birch became the earliest marine painter specialist in America, and also was noted for landscapes, although they were described by art historian James Flexner has having "never transcended the illustrator's tradition." (187). Many of these landscapes were snowscenes, and several depicted the Hudson River Valley. Thomas Birch was the son of William Russell Birch, an engraver and painter of enamel miniatures. They immigrated in 1794 to the United States and worked together as William Birch and Son in Philadelphia. They did designing, engraving, and publishing of topographic views of the city, regarded "as some of the finest cityscapes done in American in the late 18th century" (Baigell 38). One of the best-known... Read full biography
Born in England, Thomas Birch became the earliest marine painter specialist in America, and also was noted for landscapes, although they were described by art historian James Flexner has having "never transcended the illustrator's tradition." (187). Many of these landscapes were snowscenes, and several depicted the Hudson River Valley. Thomas Birch was the son of William Russell Birch, an engraver and painter of enamel miniatures. They immigrated in 1794 to the United States and worked together as William Birch and Son in Philadelphia. They did designing, engraving, and publishing of topographic views of the city, regarded "as some of the finest cityscapes done in American in the late 18th century" (Baigell 38). One of the best-known scenes by Thomas Birch was Penn's Treaty Tree, a depiction of a huge shading tree dominating most of the ca... Read full biography
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About Thomas Birch: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (31)
All MuseumsButler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Everson Museum Of Art
401 Harrison Street
Community Plaza
Syracuse, NY 13202Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, FAMSF
50 Hagiwara
Tea Garden Drive-Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Joslyn Art Museum
2200 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68102Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Amherst College
Po Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Navy Art Collection, Navy Historical Center
805 Kidder Breese Street Se, Bldg 67
Washington Navy Yard
Washington, DC 20374-5060New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024Parrish Art Museum
279 Montauk Highway
Water Mill, NY 11968Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
161 Essex Square
Salem, MA 01970Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives
Po Box 7646
Philadelphia, PA 19101R W Norton Art Gallery
4747 Creswell Ave.
Shreveport, LA 71106Reading Public Museum
500 Museum Road
Reading, PA 19611-1425Saint Louis Art Museum
Forest Park
One Fine Arts Drive
St. Louis, MO 63110Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2476The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5698The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102Timken Museum of Art
1500 El. Prado
Balboa Park
San Diego, CA 92101Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423White House Historical Association (WHHA)
740 Jackson Place NW,
Washington, DC 20006Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271