Towboat "John Birkbeck", 1854

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 75.8 x 133 cm (29 13/16 x 52 3/8 in.)

framed: 87.6 x 145.4 cm (34 1/2 x 57 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1971.83.1

Artists / Makers

James Bard (artist) American, 1815 - 1897

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: Picture Drawn & Painted by James Bard N.Y. 1854 / 162 Perry St.; on forward banner: J.B; on rear banner: JOHN BIRKBECK.; on boat: JOHN BIRKBECK.

Provenance

Recorded as from New York. (Yesteryear, Kingston, New York, 1939). Purchased by (Frederick F. Hill) as agent for Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia, 1940.[1] (Old Print Shop, New York), by whom sold in 1951 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1971.

[1] Letter of 8 February 1973 from Harold S. Sniffen, Assistant Director of the Mariner's Museum, to William P. Campbell, in NGA curatorial file. Sniffen writes that their purchasing agent Frederick Hill bought the painting for the Museum from an unknown agent or dealer on 1 August 1940.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Mariners' Museum, The
The Old Print Shop
Unknown Patron
Yesteryear

Exhibition History

1975: Extended loan for use by John O. Marsh, Jr., Counsellor to the President, The White House, Washington, D.C., 1975.

1976: Extended loan for use by Secretary William T. Coleman, Jr., U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C., 1976-1977.

1978: Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Dublin, Ireland, 1978-1981.

1982: Extended loan for use by Secretary John Block, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1982-1984.

1985: Two Centuries of American Naive Painting, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1985.

1997: The Bard Brothers: Painting American Under Sail and Steam, Natl. Mus. of Am. Art, Washington, D.C.; South St. Seaport Museum, New York; Mariners' Museum, Newport News; New York State Historical Assoc., Cooperstown, 1997-1998, unnumbered cat., repro.

Bibliography

1977: Peluso, Anthony J., Jr. J & J Bard, Picture Painters. New York, 1977: 70.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 24, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 25, 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: 9-10, color repro. 9.