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Photo, Print, Drawing Peasant Yard in Valaská Village. Sedliacky dvor vo Valaskej

About this Item

Title

  • Peasant Yard in Valaská Village.

Other Title

  • Sedliacky dvor vo Valaskej

Summary

  • Sedliacky dvor vo Valaskej (Peasant yard in Valaská Village) is one of the oldest and most valuable treasures by Jozef Murgaš (1864-1929) in the collection of the Slovak National Library. This oil painting by Murgaš shows a light-filled village yard with a poor wooden cottage and farmyard buildings framing a courtyard with a cradle tripod at its center. Murgaš completed the painting in about 1895, while he was still a chaplain, after returning to Slovakia from his studies in Munich. The painting has no signature or copyright markings. Murgaš, who was a Roman Catholic priest, studied art in Budapest and Munich and created a number of altarpieces. He moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1896 to minister to local Slovaks and was a signatory to the 1918 Pittsburgh Agreement supporting the creation of Czechoslovakia. He is mostly remembered as an inventor, primarily as a pioneer of wireless telegraphy, a field in which he held a number of patents. He also invented the spinning reel for fishing rods.

Names

  • Murgaš, Jozef, 1864-1929 Artist.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1895.

Headings

  • -  Slovakia--Banskobystrický kraj--Valaská
  • -  1895
  • -  Cottages
  • -  Haystacks
  • -  Villages

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 painting : oil-based paint ; 420 x 307 millimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Bill Kashatus, "Pioneer's Legacy Lives on," Citizensvoice.com, August 10, 2014. http://citizensvoice.com/arts-living/pioneer-s-legacy-lives-on-1.1732212. External
  • -  Original resource at: Slovak National Library.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670765

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Murgaš, Jozef, Artist. Peasant Yard in Valaská Village. Banskobystrický Kraj Slovakia Valaská, 1895. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670765/.

APA citation style:

Murgaš, J. (1895) Peasant Yard in Valaská Village. Banskobystrický Kraj Slovakia Valaská, 1895. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670765/.

MLA citation style:

Murgaš, Jozef, Artist. Peasant Yard in Valaská Village. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670765/>.