Spring on the Range

fourth quarter 19th century

American 19th Century

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American 19th Century

Artist

This painting shows a grassy green plain covered with horses. The horses are a variety of sizes and colors, including black, brown, white, tan, and white with black spots. They roll on the ground, run across the grass, sit, or rear back on their hind legs. Below the center of the painting, there is a rider on a black horse who faces us. The rider has pale skin and a thick black mustache, and wears a black shirt, yellow pants, tall black boots, and a gray cowboy hat. Bushes with yellow flowers dot the grass, and there are pointed white mountains in the distance. The sky is light green-blue with white clouds and a bright sun near the top left corner.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from Providence, Rhode Island. (Mary and Sara Andrews, Ashaway, Rhode Island), by whom sold in 1957 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1971.

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Exhibition History

1981

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, no. 32 (catalogue by Ronald McKnight Melvin).

1984

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador Walter Cutler, U.S. Embassy residence, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1984-1987.

1988

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

1999

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary Daniel R. Glickman, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1999-2001.

2001

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador Robert Zoellick, Office of the United States Trade Representative, Washington, D.C., 2001-2003.

2006

  • Extended loan for use by Susan C. Schwab, U.S. Trade Representative, Washington, D.C., 2006-2008.

Bibliography

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 297, 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: 594-595, repro. 594.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 427, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20188801

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