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Shoe, Herring, and Book

1833

George Loring Brown

Associated Names

George Loring Brown

Artist, American, 1814 - 1889

The image shows a dark-colored shoe on top of a stack of books. One of the books is partially covered in a multicolored, textured fabric with earthy tones of brown, beige, green, blue, and black. The shoe is placed horizontally on the books, angled towards the upper right corner. The books are aligned parallel to the bottom edge of the frame, with the fabric extending from beneath the shoe down towards the bottom edge.

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Artwork overview

Medium

watercolor on wove paper
Credit Line

Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts
Dimensions

sheet: 8.89 × 17.78 cm (3 1/2 × 7 in.)
Accession Number

2018.44.45

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Beach Hill Gallery, Keene, NH); William and Abigail Gerdts, New York, 2002; gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Dr. and Mrs. William H. Gerdts

Bibliography

1998

Danly, Susan and Bruce Weber. For Beauty and for Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.; Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, c.1998: 14, 38.

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink: GJ Loring Paris 1833; upper right in graphite by unknown hand: 110.

Wikidata ID

Q64571459

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