Husband
c. 1845
Painter, American, active mid 19th century
Prior-Hamblin School
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on cardboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 36.4 x 26 cm (14 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
framed: 51.4 x 41.2 x 3.1 cm (20 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1953.5.42
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from Springfield, Massachusetts. Purchased in 1946 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1938
Vassar College, February, 1938.
American Ancestors, Downton Gallery, New York, 1938, listed with three other portraits under the title Fall River Family, by an anonymous artist of the Fall River School.
1941
Masterpieces in American Folk Art, Marshall Field and Company, Chicago, 1941.
1942
American Folk Art Gallery, New York, 1942.
1943
Exhibition of American Folk Art, Marshall Field and Company, 1943, no. 12, as above.
1951
American Primitive Painting, 1750-1950, Milwaukee Art Institute, 1951, as Father, by an unknown Fall River artist.
Bibliography
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 277, 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: 309, 312, repro. 310.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 268, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20187411