Father and Son, 1800

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 104.1 x 89.8 cm (41 x 35 3/8 in.)

framed: 105.2 x 91.4 x 5 cm (41 7/16 x 36 x 1 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1956.13.1

Artists / Makers

Jonathan Budington (artist) American, c. 1779 - 1823

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: J. Budington Pinxt. 1800

Provenance

Recorded as from the Burr family homestead, Greenfield Hill, Connecticut.[1] (Mary Allis, Southport, Connecticut). (Albert Duveen, New York); sold 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift 1956 to NGA.

[1] This information was first published in Nina Fletcher Little, "Little-known Connecticut Artists 1790-1810," Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 22 (October 1957), 104, and later recalled by Mary Allis (letter of 13 June 1985, in NGA curatorial files). Donor records list the painting as from Green Hills, Connecticut, but since no town by that name exists, Greenfield Hill, Fairfield County, was undoubtedly intended.

Associated Names

Allis, Mary
Duveen, Albert
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1957: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957, no. 32.

1957: Little-Known Connecticut Artists, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1957-1958, no. 1, cat. by Nina Fletcher Little in Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 22 (October 1957).

1981: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, no. 8 (cat. by Ronald McKnight Melvin).

1993: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Swanee Hunt, U.S. Embassy residence, Vienna, Austria, 1993-1997.

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 20, repro.

1972: Schloss, Christine Skeeles. The Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries: Postrevolutionary Portraiture in New England, 1775-1805. Exh. cat. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Va., 1972: 15.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 31, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 36, 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: 35-37, color repro. 36.