The Start of the Hunt

c. 1800

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Commissioned by Bartholomew Trueheart (1770-1834), Powhatan County, Virginia. Sold (when Selma, the Trueheart estate, was sold, date unknown), to Dr. Henderson. Given by him to Trueheart's daughter, Martha Armistead;[1] to her daughter, Eliza Bolling; to her son, Wyndham Bolling; to his first cousin once removed, Wyndham Bolling Blanton, Richmond, Virginia, by whom sold in 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
[1] In her provenance provided to William Campbell on 10 January 1962 (in NGA curatorial files), Mrs. Wyndham B. Blanton makes no mention of Dr. Henderson buying this and The End of the Hunt at the sale of Selma and then giving them to Martha Artmistead, but this chain of events is documented in her 1964 book, West Hill, Cumberland County, Virginia: The Story of Those Who Have Loved It (privately printed), 26.

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Exhibition History

1954

  • American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 24.

1955

  • American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1957

  • American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957.

1961

  • 101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Federation of Arts, New York, 1961-1964, no. 22, color repro. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

1967

  • Fifty Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, 1967, no catalogue.

1968

  • American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. an B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 28, repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

1970

  • American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, organized by the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., and Mainichi News., Nihobashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1970, no catalogue.

1976

  • Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Tokyo, Japan, 1976-1980.

1984

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary John Block, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1984-1986.

1986

  • A Gentleman's Pursuit: Our Fox-Hunting Forefathers, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1986, no catalogue.

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary Richard Lyng, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1986-1987.

1988

  • A Little Bestiary: Naive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, 1988, no catalogue.

1992

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador William Fitzgerald, U.S. Embassy residence, Dublin, Ireland, 1992-1993.

1997

  • The Horse in Virginia, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, 1997-1998, no catalogue.

2001

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary Mel Martinez, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 2001-2005.

2010

  • Extended loan for use by Vice President Joseph Biden, Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C., 2010-2017.

Bibliography

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 150, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 297, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 400, repro.

  • 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: 595-598, repro. 596.

Wikidata ID

Q20181141

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