Charles H. Sisson
1850
Painter, American, 1813 - 1884

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 122.2 x 63.7 cm (48 1/8 x 25 1/16 in.)
framed: 137.8 x 79.7 x 6.3 cm (54 1/4 x 31 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1953.5.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from Connecticut. Purchased in 1947 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1954
American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 101.
1955
American Primitive Pantings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
1968
The American Primitive Paintings Exhibit, organized by the Trinton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, for the de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, 1968.
1973
Extended loan for use by the U.S. Consulate, Leningrad, U.S.S.R., 1973-1979.
1993
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 1993-1994.
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, 1993.
1994
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, 1994.
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge, 1994-1995.
1995
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Boise Art Museum, Idaho, 1995.
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), St. John's Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1995-1996.
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida, 1995.
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, 1995.
1996
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1996.
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, 1996.
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1996.
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainseville, 1996-1997.
1997
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1997.
1998
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1998.
2016
Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America, American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2016-2017, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 40, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 129, repro.
1992
Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 61-62, color repro. 61.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 139, repro.
Inscriptions
on reverse (no longer visible; photo in object file [1953.5.5] in NGA curatorial records): Painted for Charles H. Sisson who died Dec. 8, 1850 aged 3 years & 10 mos. / By J. G . Chandler
Wikidata ID
Q20187951