Still Life with Trout and Fishing Tackle

Artist Junius Brutus Stearns (American, 1810-1885)

Date1853

DimensionsFrame: 31 3/8 × 36 3/8 × 3 in. (79.7 × 92.4 × 7.6 cm)

MediumOil on canvas.

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1951.410

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Director’s Conference Room

Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 140, Dec. 1952, p. 4, repr. p. 3.

Antiques, vol. 63, April 1953, p. 356, repr.

Pierson, William H., Jr., and Martha Davidson, eds., Arts of the United States: A Pictorial Survey, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1960, no. 2875, p. 320, repr.

Cowdrey, National Academy of Design, I, 1943, p. 139.

Rogers, M., Jr., "Fishing Subjects by Junius Brutus Stearns," Antiques, XCVIII, Aug. 1970, p. 249, fig. 3.

Gerdts, W., American Still-Life Painting, New York, 1971, p. 122, fig. 9-1.

Cameron, K., "Nineteenth-Century American Fly Rods," Antiques, CV, June 1974, repr. (col.) p. 1296.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, pp. 101-102, pl. 33.

Bishop, Robert, The World of Antiques, Art and Architecture in Victorian America, New York, 1979, repr. p. 291.

Gerdts, William H., Painters of the Humble Truth, Columbia, Missouri, 1981, pp. 131,133, repr. fig. 6.8.

Antique Angler, vol. 3, no. 1, Winter 1981-1982, illus. (col.) on cover.

Driesbach, Janice T., Bountiful Harvest: 19th-Century California Still Life Painting, Sacramento, 1991, p. 29, pl. 21.

Gerdts, William H., "Before Winslow Homer: The Art of Fishing in the United States," in Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler, Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, 2003, p. 215, fig. 128.

Exhibition History

New York, National Academy of Design, 1853, no. 205 (as Trout).

Toledo Museum of Art, Fun & Games: The Pursuit of Leisure, Jun. 27-Sept. 21, 2014.