Sisters in Red, c. 1840/1850

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 63.5 x 76.5 cm (25 x 30 1/8 in.)

framed: 81.3 x 94.3 x 6.2 cm (32 x 37 1/8 x 2 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.62.19

Artists / Makers

Sturtevant J. Hamblin (painter) American, active 1837/1856

Image Use

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Provenance

Recorded as from Provincetown, Massachusetts. (Clifford Harrington, Walcliff Antiques, city unknown), by whom sold in 1951 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Harrington, Walcliff Antiques, Clifford
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1954: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 46.

Bibliography

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 191, 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: 167, color repro. 169.