Child with Straw Hat, c. 1846/1873

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.5 x 60.5 cm (30 1/8 x 23 13/16 in.)

framed: 86.7 x 71.4 x 5.4 cm (34 1/8 x 28 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1978.80.9

Artists / Makers

William Matthew Prior (artist) American, 1806 - 1873

Image Use

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Inscription

on reverse (no longer visible, photograph in object file [1978.80.9] in NGA curatorial records): Wm. M Prior 3 Section Trenton Street / East Boston

Provenance

Recorded as from New Hampshire. (Mrs. H. L. Henderson, city unknown), by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1978.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Henderson, H. L., Mrs.
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1954: American Primitive Painting, traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Inst. for the U.S. Information Service, Washington, 1954-1955, no. 58. First venue: Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland.

1962: Exhibition of Early American Art, Academy of the Arts, Talbot County Historical Society, Easton, Maryland, 1962, no. 14.

1995: Is She or Isn't He? Identifying Gender in Folk Portraits of Children. Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1995, no. 30, repro.

2012: Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed, Fenimore Art Museum, New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown; American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2012, no. 34, repro.

Bibliography

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 212, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 267, 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: 301, repro. 302.