Stanford Family Collections
Palo Alto Spring
1878
19th C.
North America, U.S.A.
86 5/8 x 138 3/8 in. (220 x 351.5 cm)
By (primary)
Thomas Hill
American, born in England, 1829–1908
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Stanford Family Collections. Conservation of this work was made possible by a generous gift from Honorable “Bill” and Jean Lane
Accession Number:
JLS.14945
Currently On View
Bibliography
Anita Mozley “Eadweard Muybridge: The Stanford Years, 1872-1882,” Stanford University Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue (Department of Art, Stanford Univeristy, 1972). pg. 20, repr.;
"Jon Sterngrass, ""Cheating, Gender Roles, and the Nineteenth-Century Croquet Craze,"" Journal of Sport History, vol. 25, no. 3, Fall 1998, pp. 398-418, p. 403 (repr.);
Claire Perry, Pacific Arcadia - Images of California, 1600–1915, (New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 81, fig. 17 (repr.);
Diana Strazdes, ""The Millionaire's Palace: Leland Stanford's Commission for Pottier & Stymus,"" Winterthur Portfolio, Winter 2001, Volume 34, Numbers 4, p. 240, Fig. 24 (ill.);
Betsy G. Fryberger, The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art, Stanford, 2003 (exhibition catalogue), pp. 62 and 70, fig. 28 (repr.);
Edward Ball, “The Inventor and the Tycoon” (Doubleday, New York, 2013). pg. 299, repr.;
The Register of the Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, vol. II No. 5, Dec. 1960 "A Floral Still Life by Thomas Hill" with bibliography. See 59.35 for biography of Thomas Hill.
Yinshi Lerman-Tan, "The Rug on the Lawn: The Seven Riddles of Palo Alto Spring" in "The Art of Description" Kara Mason ed. (Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, 2014). pg., 6, 11, and cover, repr.;
Carol Osborne, "Museum Builders in the West", (Stanford University Museum of Art), 1986, fig. 37;
Roland De Wolk, "American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford" (University of California Press, Oakland, 2019). Fig. 22, repr.
Keywords
Click a term to view the records with the same keyword
portraits
Representations of real individuals that are intended to capture a known or supposed likeness; for representations of fictional or mythological characters, use "figures (representations)." [March 1993 lead-in term added. April 1991 descriptor m
Canis familiaris (species)
Domesticated species of Canis, descended from Canis lupus and considered a subspecies in some classifications. Dogs come in a variety of shapes, and sizes and over 400 distinct breeds. All domestic or feral dogs are descended from Canis lupis or gray wolf. For more than 12,000 years, it has lived with humans as a hunting companion, protector, and as herders and guardians of sheep, goats, and cattle. Today, dogs are employed as aids to the blind and disabled, or for police work. In Western art, dogs have generally come to symbolize faithfulness and loyalty, however, in other cultures they can symbolizes a varity of traits, ranging from unclean to seducer.
Additional Images
Click an image to view a larger version
Related Siblings(s)
Click a record to view
Portfolio List
Click a portfolio name to view all the objects in that portfolio
This object is a member of the following portfolios:
Your current search criteria is: Portfolio is "Stanford Family Collections" and [Object]Country is "U.S.A." and [Object]Century is "19th C.".
View current selection of records as:
Last updated: 02/27/2021
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced.
The Cantor Arts Center encourages the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. Some images may be protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights.
To purchase a high-resolution digital image for publication, request a high-resolution digital image for study, or request permission to use an image from our website of works in the Cantor Arts Center’s collection, please contact cantor_rightsandrepro@stanford.edu
by Artist
by Artist