Wooden Cart, St. Valery
Medium
Drawing
Classification
Drawing
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Martha F. Butler
Accession Number
1992.66.18
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Art Historical Context
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg's "Wooden Cart, St. Valery," created in 1862, offers a quiet glimpse into everyday life in the historic coastal town of Saint Valery-sur-Somme, France. The drawing captures a simple wooden cart, likely used for transporting goods along the town's winding streets and near its medieval ramparts. As a work on paper, it reflects the 19th-century practice of artists traveling abroad to record scenes from their journeys with immediacy and precision. Housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum through a generous bequest, this piece highlights how American artists of the era...