Portrait of an Old Man
1848
Artist, American, active 1848
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 66 x 55.4 cm (26 x 21 13/16 in.)
framed: 87.3 x 76.2 x 5.3 cm (34 3/8 x 30 x 2 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1955.11.14
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from Pennsylvania. Purchased in 1950 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1955.
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. 94.
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.
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 94, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 216, 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: 321, repro. 322.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 272, repro.
Inscriptions
lower center, on cuff: Painted Dec. 9 / 18 48; center left: Ag[e]. 76; on reverse (no longer visible, photograph in object file [1955.11.14] in NGA curatorial records): J.C. Robinson
Wikidata ID
Q20187927