Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before

Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before

Charles Caleb Ward

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Born in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, Ward studied figure painting with William Henry Hunt in England, traveled in Europe, and resumed his studies with Asher B. Durand in New York. Although he spent most of his time in New Brunswick, he kept a New York studio from 1868 to 1872 and gained repute as a genre painter, especially of children. This, his best known work, is unusual in its subject. Several posters announce the coming of P. T. Barnum’s circus to Jerryville, West Virginia, a small town near the Virginia border, north of Roanoke. The title comes from "Lochiel’s Warning" (1802), a poem by the Scotsman Thomas Campbell.

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.