Collection Highlights
Balustrade section from Federal Hall, New York
Date:
1788-1789
Object Number:
1884.3
Medium:
Painted wrought iron
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Emma Cecilia Thursby (1845-1931)
Object Number:
1944.17
Date:
1879
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Frame: 93 x 64 in. ( 236.2 x 162.6 cm )
Framed: 93 × 64 × 5 1/2 in. (236.2 × 162.6 × 14 cm)
Unframed: 68 × 43 in
Marks:
Signed and dated upper left: "G. P. A. Healy, Pinxit / Paris, May 1879"
Gallery Label:
Emma Thursby, a native of Brooklyn, was one of the first American singers to achieve renown in Europe. A soprano, she studied voice in New York with Julius Meyer and sang regularly as a soloist with the choir of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. After further study in Italy, she had her debut as a concert artist in New York in 1875. She toured widely from the late 1870s into the early years of the twentieth century.
Bibliography:
Smith, Jewel A., Music, Women, and Pianos in Antebellum Bethlehem, Pannsylvania: The Moravian Young Ladies Seminary, Bethlehem: Hehigh University Press, 2008, p. 136.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Ina Love Thursby
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
