T.W. Wood Museum
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Montpelier, VT 05602
Montpelier, VT 05602
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Thomas Waterman Wood MUSEUMS
1823 Montpelier, Vermont - 1903 New York City. Known for: Genre, portrait, and figure painting, etching.
Thomas Waterman Wood, in the company of William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham, is one of America's first artists to find the black man a suitable subject for portrait and genre painting and... Read full biography
Thomas Waterman Wood, in the company of William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham, is one of America's first artists to find the black man a suitable subject for portrait and genre painting and to portray the black with dignity. Spending several years in the South immediately preceding and... Read full biography
Thomas Waterman Wood, in the company of William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham, is one of America's first artists to find the black man a suitable subject for portrait and genre painting and to portray the black with dignity. Spending several years in the South immediately preceding and during the War Between the States, Wood developed a sympathy for blacks and their dream of freedom. Significantly, Wood may have been the first white American painter to depict free blacks on contrast to... Read full biography
Thomas Waterman Wood, in the company of William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham, is one of America's first artists to find the black man a suitable subject for portrait and genre painting and to portray the black with dignity. Spending several years in the South immediately preceding and during the War Between the States, Wood developed a sympathy for blacks and their dream of freedom. Significantly, Wood may have been the first white American painter to depict free blacks on contrast to the enslaved servants who had appeared as accessory figures in their masters' portraits as early as the eighteenth century. Wood was born in Montpelier, Vermont, November 12, 1823. The family was not wealthy, and the young Wood was obliged to work in... Read full biography
Thomas Waterman Wood, in the company of William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham, is one of America's first artists to find the black man a suitable subject for portrait and genre painting and to portray the black with dignity. Spending several years in the South immediately preceding and during the War Between the States, Wood developed a sympathy for blacks and their dream of freedom. Significantly, Wood may have been the first white American painter to depict free blacks on contrast to the enslaved servants who had appeared as accessory figures in their masters' portraits as early as the eighteenth century. Wood was born in Montpelier, Vermont, November 12, 1823. The family was not wealthy, and the young Wood was obliged to work in his father's carpentry shop. He spent some time as a youth in Boston, where he had relatives, and there he may have studied with portraitis... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (15)
All MuseumsFenimore Art Museum
5798 State Highway 80
Po Box 800
Cooperstown, NY 13326Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, FAMSF
50 Hagiwara
Tea Garden Drive-Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20001New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024St Johnsbury Athenaeum
1171 Main Street
St Johnsbury, VT 05819The Filson Historical Society, Inc.
1310 S. Third Street
Louisville, KY 40208The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271