National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: America
  • Inscription
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  • Exhibition History

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Inscription

on the central sphere of upper border: AMERICA; on the foremost ingot at lower right: L. VAN SCHOOR. IN. & PINX.

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Provenance

Lewis Einstein [1877-1967], London, Paris, and Prague, by 1924;[1] gift 1950 to NGA.

[1] James Hazen Hyde, "L'Iconographie des Quatre Parties due Monde dans les tapisseries," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 10 (November 1924): 260. See also the exchange of letters in 1924 between Einstein (then American ambassador to Czechoslovakia) and Hyde (donor of NGA 1959.5.1) about their similar tapestries (copies in NGA curatorial files; the originals are in the James Hazen Hyde Papers, correspondence files, folder: Lewis Einstein, held by The New-York Historical Society, New York).

Exhibition History

1950
Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Paris, France, 1950-1952.
1957
Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Paris, France, 1957-1961.
1961
Extended loan for use by the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1961-1975.
1976
The European Vision of America, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Cleveland Museum of Art; Grand Palais, Paris, 1976-1977, not in cat. (shown only in Cleveland and Paris; see cat. no. 123 [NGA 1959.5.1] for tapestry shown at NGA venue).
1985
The Continental Image: Allegorical Representations of the Four Continents, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1985.
1992
America, Bride of the Sun: 500 years Latin America and the Low Countries, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1992, no. 170, repro.

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