A Submission to NAL from the RiverBrink Art Museum
RiverBrink Art Museum announces the opening of a new exhibition “The Battle of Lake Erie” curated by Debra Antoncic, Associate Curator, on Saturday, March 23, 2013. This exhibition is a continuation of RiverBrink’s commemoration of the War of 1812-14.
One of the many classic works of art to be featured in the War of 1812 exhibit, this one of U.S. Navy Commandant Oliver Perry’s victory on Lake Erie.
The Battle of Lake Erie, one of the most significant U.S. American victories in the War of 1812-14, took place on Sept. 10, 1813 off the coast of Put-in-Bay, Ohio, near Pelee Island, Ontario. This exhibition features representations of the naval engagement in various media, including a series documenting specific moments in the battle by U.S. American artist Thomas Birch (1779-1851). The Birch series, from the collection of Samuel E. Weir, is accompanied by views of the battle and participants in different media, along with archival documents and objects related to 19th -century marine warfare.
Among the artworks in the exhibition is Perry’s Victory on Lake Erie. In this late 19th-century lithograph, the U.S. commander Commodore Perry stands in the prow of a rowboat, impervious to assault and resisting the entreaties of his companions to sit down. The popular depiction was based on William Henry Powell’s painting for the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus Ohio and widely reproduced. It appears in the exhibition not only in the form of a lithograph but also on a transfer-printed earthenware plate. The plate includes Perry’s famous dispatch to his commander, “We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”
RiverBrink Art Museum is located at 116 Queenston Street, in the Queenston community of Niagara-on-the-Lakeon the Niagara Parkway halfway between Niagara Falls and the “Old Town” Niagara-on-the-Lake. For more information, please contact RiverBrink Art Museum by phone at 905-262-4510 or by email at info@riverbrink.org.
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