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| Keywords: Richard Caton Woodville - Politics in an Oyster House - Walters 371994.jpg During a brief career Woodville produced a number of paintings that serve as key documents of urban life in pre-Civil War America After training in his native Baltimore Woodville traveled to Düsseldorf to enroll in the town's renowned art academy He remained in Germany for six years and then briefly visited Paris and London before his early death at the age of thirty While an expatriate Woodville painted small anecdotal genre scenes recalling life in Baltimore Portrayed here is a typical scene in mid 19th-century Baltimore as described by Charles Dickens of all eaters of fish or flesh or fowl in these latitudes the swallowers of oysters are not gregarious and copying the coyness of the thing they eat do sit apart in curtained boxes and consort by twos not by two hundreds The humor Woodville usually imparted to his subjects is illustrated in this typical Baltimore scene showing local individuals seated in the booth of an oyster house engaged in conversation This work was executed in Düsseldorf for the Baltimore lawyer John H B Latrobe 1803-1891 1848 oil fabric cm 40 6 33 ; Framed cm 54 29 43 97 7 94 accession number 37 1994 28889 John H B Latrobe Baltimore 1848 from the artist C Morgan Marshall date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of C Morgan Marshall 1945 Four Centuries of American Art Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis 1963-1964 Three Hundred Fifty Years of Art and Architecture in Maryland Art Gallery University of Maryland College Park 1984 From Torchlights to Television Maryland Historical Society Baltimore 1986-1987 America The New World in Nineteenth Century Painting Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna 1999 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 American Stories The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles 2009-2010 The Dusseldorf School of Painting-Crossing Bridges between Cultures Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf 2011-2012 place of origin Dusseldorf Germany PD-old-auto 1927 Original upload log en wikipedia Politics_at_an_Oyster_House jpg 2011-08-22 02 02 Ksk2875 1476×1799× 3246604 bytes <nowiki> Politics in an Oyster Houst http //art thewalters org/viewwoa aspx id 28889 1848 Richard Caton Woodville Artist died in 1855 </nowiki> __NOTOC__ Richard Caton Woodville 19th-century genre paintings Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Newspapers in art Off the Wall Baltimore | ||||
