Sidon

Art Historical Context

Nestled in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection *Sidon* is a drawing by Miner Kilbourne (1814–1893), an adventurous 19th-century American artist for his journeys to the Middle East.uring the ancient Lebanese port city of Sidon—famed in antiquity as a Phoenician hub of trade and purple dye production—the work features a serene waterscape with a sailboat gliding near a bridge. Though the exact date is unknown, it likely stems from Kellogg's travels in the 1850s and 1860s, when he sketched exotic landscapes amid the Levant, blending Romantic wanderlust with precise observation. As a ...