Study for "The House that Jeff Built"

1863

David Claypoole Johnston

Artist, American, 1799 - 1865

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Doll and Richards, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1981-1983, pp. 48-49, no. 11, repro

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 5, no. 31.

Inscriptions

upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 66; lower center verso in graphite (upside down): This is the House that Jeff built

Wikidata ID

Q64540785


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