id: 98268 accession number: 1917.946 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.946 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:23.866000 George Washington at Princeton, c. 1779. Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741–1827), and Workshop. Oil on canvas; framed: 153 x 144 x 7 cm (60 1/4 x 56 11/16 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 131 x 121.6 cm (51 9/16 x 47 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Membership Income Fund 1917.946 title: George Washington at Princeton title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1779 creation date earliest: 1774 creation date latest: 1784 current location: 204 Colonial American creditline: Membership Income Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741–1827) - artist * Workshop - artist --- measurements: Framed: 153 x 144 x 7 cm (60 1/4 x 56 11/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 131 x 121.6 cm (51 9/16 x 47 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976 opening date: 1976-03-07T05:00:00 Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (March 7-April 11, 1976); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 2-June 13, 1976); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (July 4-August 15, 1976); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 8-October 10, 1976). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus opening date: 2022-02-20T05:00:00 Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October 1936), cat. no. 38.', 'opening_date': '1936-06-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Art: The International Language (2 October-4 November 1956)', 'opening_date': '1956-10-02T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Greensburg, PA, The Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Art in Pennsylvania (1959), cat. no. 87, illus. plate 8.', 'opening_date': '1959-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists (18 January-5 March 1967); traveled to Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (19 March-30 April 1967), cat. no. 52, illus. p. 13, listed p. 66-67.', 'opening_date': '1967-01-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776-1976 (6 March-11 April 1976); traveled to Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts (5 May-13 June 1976); Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art (4 July-15 August 1976); Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (8 September-10 October 1976), illus. cat. no. 1.', 'opening_date': '1976-03-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum (6 June-8 September 1991)', 'opening_date': '1991-06-06T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Colonel Frisby Tilghman [1773-1847], Talbot County, Maryland, by descent to his son-in-law, Thomas Jefferson McKaig1 date: Probably until 1847 footnotes: *