Artist Monograph

Louis Michel Eilshemius, American

American, 1864–1941

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Oil Painting	8	80%
Drawing	2	20%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	7	70%
Painting & Sculpture	3	30%

Production by Decade

2

1890s

1

1900s

7

1910s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	3	30%
Medium (30–100 cm)	7	70%

Range: 15.9 cm → 91.4 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1935	1
1941	1
1954	1
1965	3
1967	4

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 10 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Indian Adobe House, Yuma, Arizona Drawing Acc. 268.1954	1894	Pencil on paper	5 3/4 x 8 7/8" (14.6 x 22.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Alexander and Elna C. Boecker
Afternoon Wind Painting Acc. 394.1941	1899	Oil on canvas	20 x 36" (50.8 x 91.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Given anonymously
The Demon of the Rocks Drawing Acc. 285.1965	1901	Oil on cardboard	20 x 15 1/8" (50.6 x 38.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Fania Marinoff Van Vechten in memory of Carl Van Vechten
In the Studio Drawing Acc. 67.1935	c. 1911	Oil on board	22 1/8 x 13 3/4" (56.2 x 34.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Samoa Drawing Acc. 596.1967	1911	Oil on cardboard	10 x 8" (25.4 x 20.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
The Hudson at Yonkers Drawing Acc. 286.1965	1911	Oil on cardboard	15 x 20" (37.9 x 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Fania Marinoff Van Vechten in memory of Carl Van Vechten
Dancing Nymphs Painting Acc. 597.1967	1914	Oil on board	20 1/8 x 20 1/4" (51 x 51.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
Nymph Painting Acc. 598.1967	1914	Oil on board	20 1/8 x 19 3/4" (51 x 50.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
Mosque near Biskra Drawing Acc. 287.1965	(c. 1915)	Oil on cardboard	30 1/2 x 20 1/4" (77.4 x 51.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Fania Marinoff Van Vechten in memory of Carl Van Vechten
Study for Mosque near Biskra Drawing Acc. 9.1967	(c. 1915)	Pencil on brown paper	6 1/4 x 4" (15.8 x 10 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mr. and Mrs. E. Powis Jones Fund