The Barnyard
late 19th century
Artist, American, 1831 - 1915
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 63
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 60.9 x 82 cm (24 x 32 5/16 in.)
framed: 77.1 x 97.5 x 6.6 cm (30 3/8 x 38 3/8 x 2 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1955.11.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from New Jersey. (Valentine Gallery, New York), by whom sold in 1944 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1955.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1955
American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
1963
French, American, and Italian Review, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 1963, no. 52.
1967
American Painting, Art Resources Traveler (Artmobile), Illinois, 1967-1968.
1977
Extended loan for use by the Secretary, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1977-1980.
1981
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, no. 34 (cat. by Ronald McKnight Melvin).
1984
Extended loan for use by Secretary Richard Lyng, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1984-1989.
1989
Extended loan for use by Secretary Clayton Yeutter, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1989-1991.
1999
Extended loan for use by Secretary Daniel R. Glickman, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1999-2001.
2015
Le Douanier Rousseau: L'innocence archaïque, Palazzo Ducale, Venice; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Národní galerie v Praze, Prague, 2015-2017, not in catalogue (shown only in Venice).
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 124, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 262, 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: 397-399, color repro. 398.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 385, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: A. E. ZELIFF
Wikidata ID
Q20187945