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Charles Peale Polk (1767–1822), Anna Bringhurst McCulloh and Child, ca. 1793. Oil on canvas, 33 x 26 in.

Charles Peale Polk (1767–1822), Major John McCulloh’, ca. 1793. Oil on canvas, 33 x 26 in.

Charles Peale Polk (1767–1822)
Major John McCulloh and Anna Bringhurst McCulloh and Child

Presented here are paired portraits by Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822) that depict Major John McCulloh (1747-1800) and his second wife, Anna Bringhurst McCulloh (1759-1848), with a child—perhaps their eldest, George Bringhurst McCulloh (1791–1887). As the gallery explains of the sitters, “John was born in Scotland and later moved to Philadelphia, where he became a shipmaster. During the Revolutionary War, he advanced in the artillery company, serving in the engagements in Germantown, Trenton and Princeton. After the war, he remained in Philadelphia and was involved in the importation of mahogany from the West Indies, along with other commodities such as rum, silk, indigo and tea. Following the death of his first wife in 1789, John married Anna Bringhurst from a prominent Quaker family in Philadelphia. The couple had eight children together, and these portraits have remained in the sitters’ family throughout their history.”

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Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (1878-1942), Sea Treasures, modeled 1911, cast 1913. Bronze, 10 x 14 x 11 in., signed top of self base:: ‘A StL. Eberle / 1913’.Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (1878-1942)
Sea Treasures

“During a period in the early 20th century when American painters turned away from idealized or romanticized subjects and celebrated the common man and ordinary life, only a handful of sculptors joined their colleagues in this pursuit,” explains Joel Rosenkranz, whose Conner • Rosenkranz gallery specializes in sculptural works. “These included Mahonri Young, Chester Beach and perhaps the best and certainly the most consistent in this group, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, who produced several works such as On Avenue A, 1914, Windy Doorstep, 1910, and one of the finest in the group, Sea Treasures, modeled 1911.”

In Sea Treasures, Eberle “portrays a young girl gathering seaweed on a sandy beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. Bent over to grab the sea treasures, her skirt safely tucked at her waist, she is emblematic of the simple adolescent pleasures of life that inspired Eberle during the most productive years of her career.”

Rosenkranz continues, “Originally comprised as a three-figure group with a second girl seated, brushing sand from her foot, and a third standing, wringing water from her skirt, Girls on a Beach, 1913, also called Coney Island, was exhibited at the Armory Show in 1914. This cast of Sea Treasures is the only example of this single figure known at present.”

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