Geese in Flight
1850 or later
Artist, American, active 1850 or after
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 51.6 x 66.8 cm (20 5/16 x 26 5/16 in.)
framed: 62.2 x 77.4 x 3.8 cm (24 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1958.9.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from Union County, New Jersey. George Hasney, New Jersey;[1] sold in 1951 to (Mrs. Frank Bien, Morristown, New Jersey), by whom sold in 1951 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1958.
[1] Affidavit of ownership, signed by Hasney and dated 16 March 1951, in NGA curatorial file.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1954
American Primitive Paintings, traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Inst. for the U.S. Information Service, Washington, 1954-1955, no. 79. First venue: Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland.
1957
American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957, no. 97.
1968
American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exhibition by Amer. Fed. of Arts, New York, 1968-1970, no. 99. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.
1970
American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Century: 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 cat.
1972
American Primitive Painting, South Texas Artmobile, Corpus Christi, traveling exhibition by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1972-1973, no cat.
1978
The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.
1981
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, no. 27, color repro. 23 (cat. by Ronald McKnight Melvin).
1987
American Women Artists 1830-1930, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, organized by the International Exhibition Foundation, 1987, no. 63, color repro.
1993
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 1993-1994.
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, 1993.
1994
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, 1994.
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 14, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 24, 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: 10-13, color repro. 11.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 25, repro.
Inscriptions
on boat: YORK
Wikidata ID
Q20187963