Mural ("Oh, Eleazar Wheelock was a very Pious Man...") Illustrating Richard Hovey's Song "Eleazar Wheelock" (panel 1)

Walter Beach Humphrey, American, 1892 - 1966

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1938

Oil on canvas adhered to wall (Marouflage)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Commissioned by Trustees of Dartmouth College

P.939.19.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower left to right: "Oh, Eleazar Wheelock was a very Pious Man He went into the Wilderness to teach the Indian With a Gradus ad Parnassum, a Bible and a Drum And"

Course History

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2012

NAS 7, America's Indian Native American Representations in U.S. Literature and Culture, Melanie Benson, Spring 2013

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2013

GERM 65, German Humor, Veronika Fuechtner, Winter 2013

WRIT 2, Composition and Research I, Douglas Moody, Fall 2012

NAS 7, America's Indian Native American Representations in U.S. Literature and Culture, Melanie Benson, Spring 2012

ARTH 71, The “American Century”: Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012

ARTH 16, LACS 48, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012

HIST 6, NAS 30, History of the American West, Ben Madley, Winter 2012

JWST 51 WGST 67.1 GERM 42, Freud: Psychoanalysis, Jews, and Gender, Veronika Fuechtner, Summer 2013

COLT 1, Read the World, Dennis Washburn, Fall 2013

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

LATS 41, Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts, Douglas Moody, Spring 2014

ARTH 7, Orozco, Mary Coffey, Spring 2014

WRIT 2, Composition and Research I, Douglas Moody, Fall 2014

COLT 1, Read the World, Rebecca Biron, Fall 2014

SPAN 7.2, Transforming Public Space: Mural Art in Mexico and the United States, Douglas Moody, Winter 2015

WRIT 5, Visual Culture, Aimee Bahng, Winter 2015

WRIT 5, Dartmouth College in Fiction and in Fact, James Dobson, Winter 2015

WRIT 5, Humor and Identity: What’s Funny about Identity?, Jonna Mackin, Winter 2015

ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Winter 2015

LATS 41, Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts, Douglas Moody, Spring 2015

ARTH 72, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2015

ENGL 36, Contemporary American Fiction, Aimee Bahng, Summer 2015

WRIT 2, Composition and Research I, Douglas Moody, Fall 2015

COLT 1, Read the World, Rebecca Biron, Fall 2015

GEOG 11, Qualitative Methods and the Research Process in Geography, Abigail Neely, Fall 2015

GEOG 1, Introduction to Human Geography, Patricia Lopez, Fall 2015

GEOG 1, Introduction to Human Geography, Patricia Lopez, Fall 2015

WRIT 5, Dartmouth College: In Fiction and in Fact, James Dobson, Winter 2016

WRIT 5, Visual Culture, Aimee Bahng, Winter 2016

ENGL 19, Early American Literatures: Writing, Resistance, and (digital) Revolution, Ivy Schweitzer, Winter 2016

LATS 41, Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts, Douglas Moody, Spring 2016

WRIT 7.14, Learning from Dartmouth: Lessons in Visual Culture, Marlene Heck, Spring 2016

NAS 7.2, America's Indian: Native American Representations in U.S. Literature and Culture , Melanie Benson Taylor, Spring 2016

WRIT 2, Composition and Research I, Douglas Moody, Fall 2016

ANTH 13, CLST 11.9, Who Owns the Past, Deborah Nichols, Roger Ulrich, Fall 2016

ANTH 13, CLST 11.9, Who Owns the Past, Deborah Nichols, Roger Ulrich, Fall 2016

COLT 1, Read the World, Dennis Washburn, Fall 2016

WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Fall 2016

GEOG 11, Qualitative Methods and the Research Process in Geography, Abigail Neely, Fall 2016

NAS 25, Indian Country Today, Bernard Perley, Fall 2016

WRIT 5, Memoirs of Family, Ellen Rockmore, Winter 2017

WRIT 5, Animals in Contemporary Literature, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2017

WRIT 5, Animals in Contemporary Literature, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2017

WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2017

SPAN 7, Transforming Public Space: Mural Art in Mexico and the United States, Douglas Moody, Winter 2017

GEOG 23, Power, Territoriality and Political Geography, Garnet Kindervater, Spring 2017

GEOG 19, NAS 30.14, Indigeneity and Development, Greta Marchesi, Spring 2017

GEOG 23, Power, Territoriality, and Political Geography, Garnet Kindervater, Fall 2017

WRIT 2, Composition and Research I, Douglas Moody, Fall 2017

COLT 1, Read the World, Dennis Washburn, Fall 2017

GEOG 1, Introduction to Human Geography. Patricia Lopez, Fall 2017

WRIT 5, "I'm not a feminist but...", Susan Overton, Fall 2017

WRIT 5, Identity: It's Complicated, Elizabeth Tremmel, Fall 2017

WRIT 5, Memoirs of Family, Ellen Rockmore, Fall 2017

GEOG 45, Exploring Nature and Culture in New England, Garrett Nelson, Fall 2017

LATS 41, Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts, Douglas Moody, Winter 2018

REL 74.14, Religion and Social Struggle in the Americas, Jeremy Sebella, Winter 2018

WRIT 5, Dartmouth College in Fiction and in Fact, James Dobson, Winter 2018

WRIT 5, Identity: It's Complicated, Elizabeth Tremmel, Winter 2018

WRIT 5, Memoirs of Family, Ellen Rockmore, Winter 2018

WRIT 2.05, Composition and Research I, Douglas Moody, Fall 2020

Publication History

Brian Kennedy, Editor, The Hovey Murals at Dartmouth College: Culture & Contexts; Hanover; Trustees of Dartmouth College; Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, p. 25, figure 2.5; p. 67, plate 1; p. 77, plate 10 (Diagram of the "Hovey Grill"), panel 1 (left); p. 116, figure 5.8 (detail); p. 125, figure 5.10 (detail); p. 127, figure 5.11 (detail).

Provenance

Commissioned by Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1939.

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