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Currier and Ives

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WA-00048765

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Romantic Painting in America

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1943–1944

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Three Centuries of American Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1938

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Why this artist matters now

Currier and Ives was a New York printmaking firm that produced hand-colored lithographs for mass consumption between 1857 and 1907. Working primarily in narrative scenes of American life, landscape, and genre subjects, the partnership created some of the era's most widely distributed popular images, establishing lithography as a primary vehicle for democratic visual culture. The firm's prolific output and accessible pricing made prints affordable to working and middle-class households across the nation. Their work has been exhibited at MoMA in historical surveys of American art.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 50% · Updated 17d ago

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Artworks (6)

The City of Washington: Bird's-Eye View from the Potomac—Looking North

1892 · color lithograph on wove paper

image: 52.07 × 83.82 cm (20 1/2 × 33 in.) sheet: 68.1 × 93.98 cm (26 13/16 × 37 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Great East River Suspension Bridge: Connecting the Cities of New York and Brooklyn

1881 · hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

image: 22.7 × 32.7 cm (8 15/16 × 12 7/8 in.) sheet: 34.29 × 44.77 cm (13 1/2 × 17 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Broadway, New York: From the Western Union Telegraph Building Looking North

1875 · hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

image: 41.3 x 60.6 cm (16 1/4 x 23 7/8 in.) sheet: 50.4 x 71.3 cm (19 13/16 x 28 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Summer in the Highlands

1867 · Lithograph, with hand-coloring and natural gum, on cream wove paper

Image: 38 × 52.3 cm (15 × 20 5/8 in.); Sheet: 47 × 60 cm (18 9/16 × 23 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Snow Storm

1857 · Lithograph, with hand-coloring on ivory wove paper

Image: 28 × 39.2 cm (11 1/16 × 15 7/16 in.); Sheet: 34.2 × 45.8 cm (13 1/2 × 18 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Kind, Kind and Gentle is She

1835 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 22.5 × 17.5 cm (8 7/8 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet folded: 33.7 × 25.6 cm (13 5/16 × 10 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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