Floor plan

Artist galleriesAbraham Archibald Anderson's contemporaries

Abraham Archibald Anderson's contemporaries

Color pastel drawing of ballerinas in tutus on stage, watched by audience.
Artist: Abraham Archibald Anderson, Sitter: Thomas Alva Edison, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Young Husband: First Marketing, by Lilly Martin Spencer, 1854
Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris. A man in a top hat holding an umbrella and a woman in a long fashionable dark dress walk arm in arm toward the viewer as other city dwellers with umbrellas walk in various directions across cobblestone roads and sidewalks.
The Monkey Bridge, by Katsushika Taito II, early 1830s

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

A few works by Abraham Archibald Anderson, then their contemporaries: makers of the same nationality born within 25 years of them, then works from the same century and place.

First room, north wall

  1. Color pastel drawing of ballerinas in tutus on stage, watched by audience.
    Ballet at the Paris OpéraEdgar Degas, 1877Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Artist: Abraham Archibald Anderson, Sitter: Thomas Alva Edison, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
    Thomas Alva EdisonAbraham Archibald Anderson, 1890Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
  3. Young Husband: First Marketing, by Lilly Martin Spencer, 1854
    Young Husband: First MarketingLilly Martin Spencer, 1854Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

First room, south wall

  1. Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris. A man in a top hat holding an umbrella and a woman in a long fashionable dark dress walk arm in arm toward the viewer as other city dwellers with umbrellas walk in various directions across cobblestone roads and sidewalks.
    Paris Street; Rainy DayGustave Caillebotte, 1877Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. The Monkey Bridge, by Katsushika Taito II, early 1830s
    The Monkey BridgeKatsushika Taito II, early 1830sCourtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Second room, south wall

  1. Oil painting
    Harmony in Green and Rose: The Music RoomJames McNeill Whistler, 1860-1861Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
  2. Lear and Cordelia, by Richard Hatfield, 1845
    Lear and CordeliaRichard Hatfield, 1845Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  3. A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.
    Picture of Men and Women from Many Countries (Bankoku danjo jinbutsu zue)Utagawa Yoshiiku, 1861Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago