Provenance
Recorded as from New York City. Probably Charles Gardner, New York; his daughter, Sara Dorothea Gardner Schrader [d. 1935], and her husband, Hubert Schrader, Southampton, New York, until 1937. (Harry Stone, New York, by 1942)[1], by whom sold in 1946 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.
Exhibition History
- 1945
- Harry Stone Collection of American Primitive Painting, New Art Circle, J. B. Neumann Gallery, New York, 1945, no. 8; special issue of Art Lover 1 (November/December 1945) as cat.
- 1949
- Nine Lives: The Tale of the Cat in History and in Art, The Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, New York, 1949, no. 118.
- 1951
- American Primitive Painting: 1750-1950, Milwaukee Art Institute, 1951, no. 75.
- 1954
- American Primitive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 84.
- 1955
- American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955 (replaced temporarily for part of exhibition).
- 1955
- Paintings from St. James' Collectors, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 1955, no. 19.
- 1958
- American Folk Art. Part of American Art. Four Exhibitions, Brussels Universal and International Exhibition, Belgium, 1958, no. 85, 45.
- 1961
- 101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Art from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Federation of Arts, New York, 1961-1964, no. 63, color repro. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.
- 1964
- The Bird in Art, University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, 1964-1965, no. 13.
- 1968
- American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 59, repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.
- 1970
- American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, organized by the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., and Mainichi News., Nihobashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1970, no cat.
- 1970
- The New World 1620-1970, Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1970, no. 13.
- 1978
- The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.
- 1985
- American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, traveling exh. by the Internaitonal Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1985-1987, no. 2, color repro. First venue: Musuem of American Folk Art, New York.
- 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. 2, repro.
- 2010
- American Naive Paintings from the Garbisch Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, 2010, no cat.
Bibliography
- 1987
- Cardinal, Roger. Primitive Painters. London, 1987: color pl. 1.
- 1988
- Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 86, no. 20, color repro.
- 1991
- Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 291, color repro.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 394, 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: 443-445, color repro. 444.
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