Rufus Morse Newhall

Rufus Morse Newhall

Mrs. Moses B. Russell (Clarissa Peters)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a memorial portrait of Rufus Morse Newhall, born October 17, 1847, in Lincoln, Massachusetts, to Martha J. and Francis Newhall. He died in 1849, when he was seventeen months and four days old. The locket was designed to hold two images.

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.