Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011483Tuning
About the Artwork
William Sidney Mount was the first major American painter of genre, or scenes of everyday life. While not directly related, the musical subject matter of two of these drawings, Tuning and Catching a Tune, brings to mind Mount's famous painting, The Power of Music, which is on view gallery 231.
Inscriptions
signed, lower right, in graphite: W.S.M. ; by artist, upper left, in graphite: Oct. 67 - / tuning -
Exhibition history
America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985). American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Sidney Mount (American, 1807–1868)
- Date
- 1867
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9.7 x 16.2 cm (3 13/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Accession no.
- 1946.1711
More by William Sidney Mount in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00011483
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