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The Art Gallery at the Athenaeum contains one of America’s unique collections of 19th century American paintings. Each week we will feature a different work on this page. We hope educators will use this link as a tool to enrich their art curriculum. Vermonters and other citizens throughout the nation can now visit our gallery in this new, intimate, and informative way. The text describing each painting was written by Mark D. Mitchell, Assistant Curator of Nineteenth-Century Art at the National Academy Museum. The digital images were prepared by Robert Jenks of Jenks Studio of Photography in St. Johnsbury, VT. Please note that the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum prohibits the use of images from its collection in public exhibition, broadcast, electronic reproduction or publication in any form without prior written permission from the institution. If you would like to reproduce any of the Art Gallery images in any form, contact Irwin Gelber at 748-8291, extension 307. See the archive of previously highlighted works.
Samuel Colman (1832-1920), American Samuel Colman was drawn to the exotic and experimental throughout his career. Among other initiatives, he was one of the first American painters to visit and depict southern Spain and Morocco, and he became the first president of the American Watercolor Society at its founding in 1866. He was equally quick to visit distant California in 1870, a trip that inspired a series of depictions of westward-bound wagon trains that included The Emigrant Train, Colorado. Given that Colman's journey came just a year after the completion of the transcontinental railroad, the arduous wagon trip must itself have seemed destined to became a vestige of the American past.
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