Tall Clock

Tall Clock

Gawen Brown

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The dial on this clock may represent Gawen Brown's earliest work, since the spandrels feature the urn and eagle common on English dials of the early eighteenth century. This dial was originally square; the top arch was added, probably by Brown himself. Brown's works are usually found in Boston cases, but this one is from Newport, Rhode Island. It is a simpler version of another Newport tall clock in the Museum's collection (27.57.2) with a case made by John Townsend.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.