On Point, 1854 or after

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 46.4 x 52.1 cm (18 1/4 x 20 1/2 in.)

framed: 55.5 x 65.1 cm (21 7/8 x 25 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Courtesy Gwynne Garbisch McDevitt. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.62.68

Artists / Makers

D.G. Stouter (artist) American, active 1854 or after

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: D.G. Stouter, / Artist

Provenance

Recorded as from Pennsylvania. (Edgar Sittig, Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania), by whom sold in 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Sittig, Edgar H.
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1961: 101 Masterpieces of American PrimitivePainting from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Federation of Arts, New York, 1961-1964, no. 62, color repro. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

1967: Art and the Decorator, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 1967, unnumbered cat.

1967: Fifty Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, 1967, no cat.

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. 58, repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

1978: The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.

Bibliography

1970: Haverstock, Mary Sayre. "An American Bestiary." Art in America 58 (July 1970): color repro. 47.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 344, 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: 379-381, color repro. 380.