The Truants
c. 1870
Painter, American, 1824 - 1906

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on academy board
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 59.37 × 68.58 cm (23 3/8 × 27 in.)
framed: 83.19 × 94.3 × 8.89 cm (32 3/4 × 37 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2014.136.90
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Estate of the artist; (his estate sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 26-27 February 1907, no. 129). Mrs. E. W. McMahon, Pelham, New York;[1] purchased May 1962 by (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York); purchased 27 March 1963 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to correspondence 13 November 2003 from Hirschl & Adler to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. See NGA curatorial file. Probably Mrs. Edward Ward McMahon.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 October-29 December 1963, unpublished checklist, as The Shelter.
1977
Exhibition of 19th Century American Landscape Painting, The Committee on House Administration of the United States House of Representatives, Washington, 31 January-31 March 1977, as The Shelter.
Themes in American Painting, Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1 October-30 November 1977, no. 40, repro., as The Shelter.
1980
Inaugural Exhibition: The Seven Ages of Man, London Regional Art Gallery, Ontario, 3 May-15 June 1980, unnumbered cat., repro., as The Shelter.
Snow Show, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 18 January-16 March 1980, no. 46, as The Shelter.
2004
Sugaring Off: The Maple Sugar Paintings of Eastman Johnson, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, 2004, repro., as The Shelter.
Bibliography
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 304, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: E. J.
Wikidata ID
Q46629831