Artist

Edward Mitchell Bannister

born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901
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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Sandra and Jacob Terner
Also known as
  • Edward M. Bannister
  • E. M. Bannister
Born
St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada
Died
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Active in
  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Biography

Bannister created a sensation when one of his paintings won first prize at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. He was also a respected and knowledgeable art critic.

Paintings by African Americans from the collection of the National Museum of American Art: A Book of Postcards (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art in cooperation with Pomegranate Artbooks, 1991)

Works by this artist (122 items)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, Sunset Scene, ca. 1875-1885, oil on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Charles Mandell, 1983.95.82
Sunset Scene
Dateca. 1875-1885
oil on wood
On view
Edward Mitchell Bannister, Dorchester 1856, 1856, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Charles Mandell, 1983.95.81
Dorchester 1856
Date1856
oil on canvas
On view
Edward Mitchell Bannister, Driving Home the Cows, 1881, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of G. William Miller, 1983.95.58
Driving Home the Cows
Date1881
oil on canvas
On view

Exhibitions

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Grand Salon Installation-Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
June 5, 2009November 11, 2013
This installation in the Renwick Gallery's Grand Salon displays seventy paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection, including landscapes, portraits, and allegorical works by fifty-one American artists from the 1840s to the 1930s.