Artist

John Rogers

born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904
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Collection of the New-York Historical Society; negative #26484.
Also known as
  • John H. Rogers
Born
Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Died
New Canaan, Connecticut, United States
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Born in Massachusetts, later lived in Chicago and New York City. Sculptor whose mass-produced plaster "Rogers Groups" of adults and children found places in many American homes and in some museums.

Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)

Works by this artist (3 items)

Miné Okubo, Wind and Dust, 1943, opaque watercolor on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2023.46.3, © 2023, The Miné Okubo Charitable Corporation
Wind and Dust
Date1943
opaque watercolor on paperboard
On view
Miné Okubo, Portrait Study, ca. 1937, tempera on hardboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2023.46.1, © 2023, The Miné Okubo Charitable Corporation
Portrait Study
Dateca. 1937
tempera on hardboard
On view
Miné Okubo, Grocer Weighing Produce, 1940, tempera on hardboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2023.46.2, © 2023, The Miné Okubo Charitable Corporation
Grocer Weighing Produce
Date1940
tempera on hardboard
On view

Exhibitions

A painting of a bridge made from nature.
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
May 14, 2021July 11, 2021
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture reveals how the influential naturalist and explorer shaped American perceptions of nature and the way American cultural identity became grounded in our relationship with the e
An artwork image of a woman
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano 
October 8, 2021May 8, 2022
This exhibition brings to life the Venetian glass revival of the nineteenth century on the famed island of Murano and the artistic experimentation the city inspired for artists such as John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.