Melons and Grapes, mid 19th century

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall (including painted frame): 51.5 x 60.7 cm (20 1/4 x 23 7/8 in.)

framed: 51.4 x 60.6 x 2.5 cm (20 1/4 x 23 7/8 x 1 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1957.11.5

Artists / Makers

Chipman (artist) American, active mid 19th century

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Provenance

Recorded as from New York. (Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York, by 1946),[1] by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1957.

[1] When the painting was included in the Harry Shaw Newman Gallery's Exhibition of American Primitives.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Newman Gallery, Harry Shaw
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1946: Exhibition of American Primitives, Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York, 1946, In Panorama 1 (April 1946): 76.

1957: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957, no. 57.

1981: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, no. 43, (cat. by Ronald McKnight Melvin).

1985: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, traveling exhibition circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1985-1987, no. 22, color repro.

1988: La Nascita di Una Nazione: Pittori americani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington 1730-1880, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna; Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca'Pesaro, Venice, 1988-1989, no. 22, 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: 130, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 141, 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: 68-69, color repro. 69.