Skip to main content
image alt

Joseph Rusling Meeker

Landscape (Bayou)

1879

image alt
  • Artist Joseph Rusling Meeker (American, 1827–1887)
  • Title Landscape (Bayou)
  • Date 1879
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 22 1/8 x 34 1/8 in.
  • Credit line Gift of J. Harold Pettus, 1965
  • Object number WU 4264

Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/09/2016 - 01/15/2017

American Places: Painting the Landscape in the Nineteenth Century
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/20/2013 - 01/06/2014

Green Acres: Neocolonialism in the U.S.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/11/1992 - 11/01/1992

Nature and the Figure
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/09/1983 - 03/06/1983

The Way We See It: America by Americans 1850–1980
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 10/10/1982 - 11/07/1982

Joseph Rusling Meeker: Images of the Mississippi Delta
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, Alabama), 09/05/1981 - 10/25/1981
Fine Arts Museum of the South (Mobile, Alabama), 11/01/1981 - 12/13/1981
Historic New Orleans Collection (New Orleans, Louisiana), 12/20/1981 - 03/08/1982

Summer Selections
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/24/1979 - 08/31/1979

Salon de Resserre: Selections of European and American Art of the Nineteenth Century from the Washington University Collections
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 02/01/1970 - 03/06/1970

1965
J. Harold Pettus

Inscription [on verso at LL corner of canvas, written in brown paint:] JRM [all letters overlapping] 1879

This artwork record may be incomplete or need refinement. Our staff actively researches the collection and revises records when new information is available. If you have questions or comments about this record, please contact us.