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Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn
November 11, 2011 - April 15, 2012
Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam
Title
Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam
Date
1758-1758
Medium
Oil on bed ticking
Description
Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam (1752-1758, by John Greenwood), the first genre painting in American art history, on loan from the Saint Louis Art Museum, illustrating the sort of tavern where discontent brewed in the Atlantic world, in an 18th-century version of “social networking.”
Credit Line
Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase
Object Number
256:1948
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.



