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Searching the Scriptures
Catalog#: Summer 2006
Artist: William Michael Harnett 
Category: Paintings - American
Era: 19th Century

William Michael Harnett (1848-1892)

Searching the Scriptures

Exhibited: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (Mar. 21-May 3, 1970), Whitney Museum of Art, New York (May 19-July 5, 1970), University Art Museum, Berkeley (and) California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (July 15-Aug. 31, 1970), The Detroit Institute of Arts (Sept. 15-Oct. 31, 1970), The Reality of Appearance: The Trompe L'oeil Tradition in American Painting, no. 34

Illustrated: Alfred Frankenstein, After the Hunt: William Harnett and other American Still Life Painters, 1870-1900 (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969 revised), pl. 49 (p. 62); Alfred Frankenstein, The Reality of Appearance: The Trompe L'oeil Tradition in American Painting (New York Graphic Society LTD., 1970) pl. 34 (p. 70-71)






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