| Currier & Ives Gallery |
| Americana Prints | |||
| The publishing firm of Currier & Ives created the most popular and highly regarded lithographs of quintessentially American scenes ever produced. The quality, vast scope and engagingly populist style of their works have made their names synonymous with an idealistic vision of 19th-century American promise and optimism. The Old Grist MillAmong their most popular imagery were scenes of winter in the country, which resonated strongly, especially with an urban American public that was highly nostalgic for the simpler rural life. Nathaniel Currier began his lithographic career as an apprentice in 1828. By the mid-1830's he had established his own firm on Spruce Street in New York City. In 1857 James Ives became a partner in the flourishing business, which went on to produce over 7,000 lithographs by 1907. Currier & Ives was undoubtedly the most prolific firm of lithographers in America, its output greater than that of all the other firms combined. The remarkable scope of this production was matched by the company's ability to anticipate popular themes and subject matter. Among their many works are lithographs depicting sporting, railroad and rural scenes, marine, and western views, as well as foreign and domestic city views, historical tableaux, and a wide range of sentimental, morally instructive and advertising images. Currier & Ives' broad productivity was accompanied by consistently high standards of printing and hand-coloring, and their ability to draw on original works by many of the finest American genre painters of the times, including -besides Durrie - Fanny Palmer, Louis Maurer, and Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait. | |||
| Publication City: New York | |||
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 After Knig & Murphy The Darktown Hook & Ladder Corps. In Action details |  After Thomas Worth The Darktown Fire Brigade - Saved! details |  After Thomas Worth The Darktown Fire Brigade - To the Rescue! details |  After Thomas Worth Creating A Sensation, The "Bully Boy" on a Bicycle details |  American Country - Summer Evening details |  American Country Life: Pleasures of Winter details |  American Farm Scene details |  Andrew Johnson details |  Bass Fishing details |  Blackberry Dell details |  Boston Fire of 1872 details |  California Scenery details |  Camping in the Woods details |  Camping Out details |  Canvas Backs details |  Chicago Burning details |  Chicago in Flames. details |  City of Washington DC details |  Coast of California details |  Edward & Swiveller details |  Forest Summer details |  Gold Hunter details |  Great Salt Lake, Utah details |  Home of the Deer (Adirondacks) details |  Home on Sick Leave details |  Intemperance & Temperance details |  Inundation details |  Ivy Bridge details |  Last Gun of the Arctic, Stewart Holland details |  Life of a Fireman: Ruins details |  Life of a Fireman: Steam & Muscle details |  Life of a Fireman: The Race details |  Lobster Sauce details |  Molly Pitcher details |  more items available details |  more items available details |  Mount Washington, White Mountains details |  New England Home details |  New England Winter Scene details |  Placid Lake, Adirondacks details |  Potomac & Masher details |  Prairie Fires of the Great West. details |  Prairie Hunter details |  Pursuit details |  Quail details |  Sale of the Pet Lamb details |  Scene on the Susquehanna details |  Secession Movement details |  Summer in the Country details |  Summer Morning details |  Sunday, Olden Times details |  The Art of Making Money Plenty in every Man's Pocket; by Doctor Franklin details |  The Darktown Bowling Club, Watching for a strike. details |  The Darktown Elopement, Skip softly lub, don' sturb de ole man an de bull pup! details |  The Darktown Fire Brigade - A Prize Squirt, "Now den! Shake her up once moah fur de Mug!" details |  The Darktown Fire Brigade - The Last Shake, "We's won de Mug be we's smashed de ole machine." details |  The Express Train details |  The Fall of Richmond, VA on the Night of April 2nd, 1865. details |  The Great West details |  The last Hit of the Game, A Home Run details |  The Last Shot details |  The Last War Whoop details |  The Life of A Trapper details |  The Pleasures of Winter details |  The Rubber details |  The Storming of Ft.Donelson, Tenn. Feb.15th 1862 details |  The Yacht Squadron at Newport details |  Through to the Pacific details |  Trapper's Last Shot details |  Trotting Cracks in the Road details |  Union Volunteer details |  Upper Mississippi Village details |  Valley Falls, VA details |  Wild Duck Shooting details |  Winter Evening details |  Winter Rail Shooting details |  Wood Duck, Golden Eye details | | | |
