A quick JSTOR search suggests the article from the Art Bulletin might be
this:
Art and Commerce in Jacksonian America: The Steamboat Albany Collection
Kenneth John Myers
The Art Bulletin, Vol. 82, No. 3. (Sep., 2000), pp. 503-528.
Abstract
When the Stevens family of Hoboken, New Jersey, commissioned twelve
paintings by seven leading American artists in 1826 and then installed them
in its new Hudson River steamboat, the Albany, it constituted one of the
earliest important instances of arts patronage by a private business in the
United States. The Albany collection included paintings by Birch, Doughty,
Cole, Vanderlyn, Sully, and Morse. In this essay, I reconstruct this
historically influential collection and explore its significance for the
Stevenses who commissioned it, for the artists who contributed to it, and
for travelers who could have seen it in its original installation.
Max Marmor
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