Provenance · Acquisition fund
Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial
This catalog gathers 28 public-domain works acquired through the Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial fund. Every work is held by Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Portrait of Sardar Singh (Son of Savant Singh, 1730–68) -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Listening to the Qin -
Shishupala arguing with Rukmini’s father, Bhishmaka, from a Rukmini Haran -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Children Playing Blindman's Buff in a Garden -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Scholar at a Table with a Servant aside Preparing the Ink -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man Resting under Bamboo -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo -
The Birth of Krishna, from a Sursagar of Surdas (Indian, c. 1480–1580) -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Holding a Horse -
Album of Landscape Painting Illustrating Old Poems -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Two Women with Needlework in a Garden -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Man Reclining and Enjoying the View -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man with a Staff Admires Chrysanthemums at a Fence -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Three Big Trees, a Stream with an Old Man Sitting on the Bank -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Scholar watching Fish -
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Scholar under a Pine Tree -
Two Standing Saints -
Madonna and Child with Angels -
Hell's Half Acre, Prismatic Springs -
Notre-Dame, Paris -
Officers on the Lookout at Cathcart's Hill -
Sheet of Studies: Self-Portrait, a Beggar Couple, etc. -
Returning to the Trenches -
The Cupboard -
The Proverbs: Two Heads are Better than One or Poor Folly -
Bellona Leading the Armies of the Emperor against the Turks -
The Seige of Carthage -
The Calvary
On provenance & the public domain
A credit line — the small "Acquisition fund of…" note beside a work on a museum wall — records its provenance: how the object passed from a private hand into a public collection, whether as an outright gift, a bequest left in a will, the purchase from a named endowment, or an entire collection acquired at once. Because these works are in the public domain, anyone can study, share, and reproduce them freely. Browsing by provenance follows the human story behind a museum's holdings — the collectors and benefactors whose generosity put these works where the public can see them.
Every work in this catalog is in the public domain; images come from the museums that hold them.