Berks County Almshouse, 1895
1895
Artist, American, 1842 - 1899 or after
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on metal
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 82.9 x 100.7 cm (32 5/8 x 39 5/8 in.)
framed: 95.2 x 113.5 x 4.7 cm (37 1/2 x 44 11/16 x 1 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1953.5.25
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from Reading, Pennsylvania. Purchased in 1947 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1968
Pennsylvania Almshouse Painters--Charles Hofmann, John Rasmussen and Louis Mader, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1968, unpaginated and unnumbered (cat. by Thomas Armstrong).
1978
The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 80, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 197, repro.
Armstrong, Thomas. "Charles C. Hofmann." In Lipman, Jean, and Tom Armstrong, eds. American Folk Painters of Three Centuries. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1950: 103-109. (discusses Almshouse as institution).
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: 249-250, repro. 250.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 230, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: Louis Mader; lower center: View of the Berks-County-Almshouse, 1895. / DIRECTORS: DR. WM. H. SEITZINGER--JOHN A. HIESTER--JONATHAN W. SCHWARTZ. / STEWARD: JOHN W. GILBERT--UNDER STEWARD: OLIVER C. SITLER. / CLERK: SAMUEL M. DECK.
Wikidata ID
Q20190475