Hoyt Sherman Place Adopt a Painting Campaign

Donors

In 2012, Hoyt Sherman Place embarked on a multi-year project to restore fifty-two pieces in the collection which was acquired by the Des Moines Women's Club over the past 125 years.

Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation, responsible for the contents and collection of the HSP Art Galleries, evaluated the pieces and identified the need for conservation in a number of paintings. Once the paintings are selected and adopted, they are shipped to Bauman Conservation in the Chicago area. (Click here for an 2013 article about our project.)

We are grateful to the many donors who have already adopted our paintings, or have donated unrestricted funds to cover transportation and insurance costs of the project. Adopt A Painting was partially funded by a generous donation from the estate of Donna Emmons, a former Des Moines Women's Club President. For more information about our early painting collection read this April 1909 Article from Midwestern by Women's Club charter member Calista Halsey.

As of October 2016, forty-three canvases have been completed and the final seven adopted paintings are currently being restored. The frames of several recently completed paintings are not yet complete. You may view these paintings in the gallery below, or in person in the galleries at Hoyt Sherman Place. For more information on individual paintings, click here.

For more information on our project call Hoyt Sherman Place: 515-244-0507, email John Bryan.

Adopted and Currently in Restoration

Portrait of Margaret Byers by William Edwards Cook 1881-1959 (Copy)

Portrait of Young Major Byers, by C. E. Baldwin (Copy)

Mining Camp, by Marian K. Wachtel 1873-1954 (Copy)

Rembrandt Self Portrait with Hat and Gold Chain, copy by C.A. Cumming (Copy)

The Tinker (Copy)

Madonna (Copy)

Barn Scene (Copy)

Completed paintings

Donors List

Le Jeune Berger (the young shepherd) (Copy)

Anon. "Two Dancing Children" (Copy)

Infante Marguerite by Valesquez, copy by C.A. Cumming (Copy)

Souza Pinta "Boy and a Boat" (Copy)

Old Man and Sleeping Child, by Wilbur A. Reasor 1860-1942 (Copy)

Saskia as Flora (Copy)

Mary Orwig Everett "Major Byers" 1924 (Copy)

Charles A. Cumming "Brittany Gardens" (Copy)

La Cigale (The Grasshopper) (Copy)

Bruce Crane "Late Afternoon" (Copy)

Summer Afternoon by Charles A. Cumming (Copy)

C. E. Baldwin "A Fantasy" (Copy)

Ben Foster "Pines and Rocks" (Copy)

Bernard de Hoog "Cup of Tea" (Copy)

After Raphael Madonna del Granduca (Copy)

J.A. Forgy "Raccoon Forks" 1879 (Copy)

Annibale Carracci 1560-1609 "Madonna and Child" (Copy)

Freeman "Princess and the Parrot" (Copy)

Frieseke "Le Dejeuner" (Copy)

Lillian Genth "The Terrace" (Copy)

"The Hermit" copy after Salomon Konink, Dutch (Copy)

George Inness "Landscape" (Copy)

George McCord "October" (Copy)

Charles A. Cumming "Meditation" (Copy)

Thomas Moran "Venetian Scene" 1905 (Copy)

Alice McKee Cumming "The Pergola" (Copy)

Potter "Dutch Interior" (Copy)

Schultze "Lago Maggiore" (Copy)

C.E. Baldwin "Ready for Shopping" (Copy)

Symons "Thompson's Bend" (Copy)

Richard William Trost "Children in a Landscape" 1858 (Copy)

Elihu Vedder "House by the Sea" (Copy)

C.E. Baldwin "Portrait of a Lady" (Copy)

Baldwin "A Waif" (Copy)

Edwin Lord Weeks "Loading the Caravan" (Copy)

William Wendt "California Sycamores" (Copy)

Walter Elmer Schofield "Approaching Storm" (Copy)

Ben Foster "Autumn Mood" (Copy)

“ENTERING THE HARBOUR” (Copy)

"HARVESTERS" (Copy)

The Song (Copy)

Murillo "Marriage of St. Catherine" (Copy)

THE REPENTANT MAGDALENE (Copy)

The following oil paintings and works on paper are part of the HSP collection,

but were not included in the HSP Adopt A Painting Campaign

Tyrolean Girl, by Emil Rau 1858-1937 (Copy)

Self Portrait Madame Le Brun copy Byers Collection (Copy)

Bermuda by Lawrence Grant (Copy)

The Page by Joseph Ringeisen (Copy)

“HUSSARS” (Copy)

Afterglow or Landscape attributed to George Innes (Copy)

Autumn Woodland by John C. Johansen (Copy)

MAFFITT MAGIC #2 (Copy)

Alpen Glow on Going to the Sun Mountain (Copy)

Untitled Landscape by Ralph Sawyer (Copy)

Rubber Tree, Honolulu. Harriet Macy (Copy)

Taos Mountain by Harriet Macy (Copy)

Apollo Teaching Venus to Paint. Federico Barocci 1526-1612 (Copy)

"Monk's Head" copy after Diego Velasquez (Copy)

Burning Village at Night (Copy)

Hoyt Sherman Portrait painted by G.D.M. Peixotto (Copy)

Young Girl Sewing, Lousie Orwig (Copy)

Portrait of Mrs R. R. (Mary H.) Peters 11th President of DMWC (Copy)

Mrs. W. H. (Alice) Bailey, 15th Club President (Copy)

Portrait of Mrs. D. H. (Virginia H.) Reichard (Copy)

Countess Potocki (Copy)

The Gleaners (Copy)

Nantucket Beach by David John Gue (Copy)

Four seasons by Inge Chase (Copy)

Zinnias, Jessie Bruner Minassian (Copy)

Floral Still Life, artist unknown (Copy)

Unidentified Portrait of Man (Copy)

Unidentified portrait of woman (Copy)

Two antique oil paintings in gold frames. (Copy)

Peonies, by Macy (Copy)

Untitled Landscape by Pearl Shotwell (Copy)

Purchase Prizes from Past DMWC Art Exhibitions

Long Shadows, Union Park. Harriet Macy (Copy)

SILENT MESAS, Kerr S. Forman (Copy)

"Still Life" Marie Wiley (Copy)

Wet, Wet Woods, Linn Culbertson (Copy)

Mountain Noon, Kerr S. Foreman (Purchase prize 1931) (Copy)

Works on Paper

Arabian Market by T. F. Simon (Copy)

TEMPLE TO MINERVA IN ROME (Copy)

Bittersweet - Kaiko Moto (India 1921-1989) (Copy)

Chinese Banner panel by Dowager Empress of China (Copy)

Ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico (Copy)

Twin Sisters by Edna Patzig Gouwens 1890-1997 (Copy)

The Old Stone House, HARRIET MACY (Copy)

Meadow Sanctuary by Diane Munkel (Copy)

Hunting Dogs, artist unknown (Copy)

Charcoal pencil sketch for Hoyt Sherman Portrait (Copy)

Portrait of Mrs. Mary Wright, member: 1885-1891 (Copy)

Pair of Pictures in Gilt frames (Copy)

Roses Oval framed (Copy)

Landscape, Edith Marion Bell (Copy)

Red and Yellow Roses, 1897, Jessie Bruner Minassian (Copy)

Hoyt Sherman Place, G.E.M (Copy)

Hoyt Sherman Place GEM (Copy)

Hoyt Sherman Place, Bill Wagner (Copy)

Photographs and Prints

Hoyt Sherman Photograph (Copy)

George Washington Stuart, Gilbert (Copy)

Lawrence Byers, photograph (Copy)

Major Byers photograph (Copy)

Mrs. Margaret Byers in Egypt (Copy)

Godey Ladies Prints (8) (Copy)

Calista Halsey, charter club member (Copy)

Drawing Room at St. James Palace, 1871 (Copy)

Textiles

Square Embroidery, Chinese (Copy)

Four Oriental Embroidered Pictures on Silk (Copy)

Sampler Made by Martha Hall in 1796 at age 10 (Copy)

Fireplace Screen, Woolwork (Copy)

Antique Fan (Copy)

Chinese Embroidery from the Conger Collection (Copy)

Lace Collar (Copy)

Silk flag carried at the silver wedding of Elizabeth of Austria (Copy)

"Tapestry Embroideried by Mrs. John Collard" (Copy)

Tapestry in Starway (Copy)

Hair Wreath (Copy)

Vintage gown (Copy)

Needlepoint Woman Knitting (Copy)

Pettipoint Picture (Copy)

Ecru Linen Handkerchief Wide Lace Border (Copy)

Antique Doll, Linens (Copy)

Click here for a list of paintings that were conserved but are still available for adoption.

Click her for a visual catalog of HSP sculpture.