Mural ("...Five Hundred Gallons of New England Rum...") Illustrating Richard Hovey's Song "Eleazar Wheelock" (panel 2)
Walter Beach Humphrey, American, 1892 - 1966
1938
Oil on canvas adhered to wall (Marouflage)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Commissioned by Trustees of Dartmouth College
P.939.19.2
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: "Five Hundred Gallons of New England Rum"
Course History
NAS 7, America's Indian Native American Representations in U.S. Literature and Culture, Melanie Benson, 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. 32, figure 2.9 (detail, incorrectly labeled .10); p. 44, figure 3.1 (detail, incorrectly labeled .3); p. 62, figure 3.11 (detail, incorrectly labeled .3); p. 68, plate 2; page 77, plate 10 (Diagram of the "Hovey Grill"), panel 1 (right).
Provenance
Commissioned by Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1939.
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