One Hundred Eleven Masterpieces of American Naive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

June 12-September 1, 1969

Overview: 111 paintings from the Garbisch collection were shown. For 25 years Colonel and Mrs. Garbisch had assembled a collection of 2,600 early American paintings for their country estate, "Pokety," in Cambridge, Maryland. 34 of the paintings that were exhibited had been given to the National Gallery, including Flax Scutching Bee,General Washington on A White Charger, and The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks. The exhibition was organized and circulated by the American Federation of Arts.

Attendance: 135,528 (82 days)

Location: Ground Floor, Central Gallery, Galleries G-8, G-9

Catalogue: American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, preface by Lloyd Goodrich, introduction by Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1969.

Other venues:

Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris

February 16-April 18, 1968

Amerika House, Berlin

May 3-June 10, 1968

Palazzo Collicola, Festival of the Two Worlds, Spoleto

June 28-July 14, 1968

Royal Academy of Arts, London

September 6-October 20, 1968

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

November 7-December 29, 1968

Cason del Buen Ritiro, Madrid

January 15-February 16, 1969

Palacio de la Virreina, Barcelona

February 21-March 16, 1969

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

March 24-April 27, 1969

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

June 12-September 1, 1969

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

November 16, 1969-January 4, 1970

United States Military Academy Library, West Point

January 22-February 15, 1970

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