Eaton Family Memorial

1831

Samuel Jordan

Artist, American, 1803/1804 - 1836 or after

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from New Hampshire. (Edith Gregor Halpert, American Folk Art Gallery, New York); sold 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift 1955 to NGA.

Associated Names

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. 66.

1955

  • American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955 (temporary replacement for another painting for part of exhibition).

1975

  • American Folk Art: Tour in the Arkansas Artmobile Bicentennial Exhibition, traveling exhibition organized by the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1975-1976, no cat.

1981

  • Scenes of Folk Art, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, West Germany, 1981, no cat.

1993

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 1993-1994.

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, 1993.

1994

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge, 1994-1995.

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, 1994.

1995

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, 1995.

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Boise Art Museum, Idaho, 1995.

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), St. John's Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1995-1996.

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida, 1995.

1996

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainseville, 1996-1997.

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, 1996.

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1996.

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1996.

1997

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1997.

1998

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1998.

2010

  • American Naive Paintings from the Garbisch Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, 2010, no cat.

Bibliography

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 74, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 185, 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: 236-238, repro. 237.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 216, repro.

2009

  • Child, Deborah M. "Samuel Jordan: Artist, Thief, Villian." Antiques and Fine Art (Summer 2009): 150, 151-152, 153 n. 8, figs. 9a, 9b.

2021

  • Schwartz, Sanford. On Edward Hicks. Seattle, 2021: 52, color repro.

Inscriptions

on base of memorial: S.J. Sc 1831; on memorial: to the Memory of / Ednah Eaton- / who died December 22nd / 1797, AEt. 3 years- / Samuel Eaton- / [w]ho Died October 6th 1803, / [] 3 years- / [M]ehitable Eaton / [w]ho died April 12th 1819- / 12 Years- / Lucy Eaton- / who died August 14th / 1830- / AEt 40 years- / Sleep on, my Children, sleep; across top reverse (no longer visible, photograph in object file [1955.11.9] in NGA curatorial records): Painted AD 1831 in Plaistow, N, Hampshire / by Samuel Jordan; lower right reverse in pseudo-Greek: Samuel Jordan of Boston / painted AD 1831 / Aged 27 / in God's Name / Adieu.; lower left reverse, below a shooting star and a half-fallen cross, in pseudo-Greek: Christ our Trust

Wikidata ID

Q20185748

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