Man with a Tune Book: Possibly Mr. Cook

c. 1838

Erastus Salisbury Field

Artist, American, 1805 - 1900

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from Massachusetts. (Thomas McCondack, West Lebanon, New Hampshire); to (Winifred Harding, Woodstock, Vermont); to Reginald French, Amherst, Massachusetts; to (Thurston Thacher, Hyde Park, New York); by whom sold in 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1978.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1962

  • Exhibition of Early American Art, Academy of the Arts, Talbot County Historical Society, Easton, Maryland, 1962.

1963

  • Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, 1963, no. 73, as Man with Song Book "Old Hundred, L.M.", (cat. by Mary C. Black).

1984

  • Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900, traveling exhibition, 1984-1985, 27, no. 61, fig. 29 (cat. by Mary C. Black). First venue; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts.

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), 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), Boise Art Museum, Idaho, 1995.

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

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

Bibliography

1963

  • French, Reginald F., and Agnes M. Dods. "Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 28 (October 1963): 108, no. 31, as Nathaniel Cook(?) (includes "Checklist of Paintings ... E.S. Field").

  • Maytham, Thomas N. "Two Faces of New England Portrait Painting, Erastus Salisbury Field and Henry Darby." Musuem of Fine Arts (Boston) Bulletin 61: 36-37, fig. 7.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 161, repro., as Portrait of a Man with a Hymnal

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: 126-129, repro. 127.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 181, repro.

Inscriptions

on tune book, left: OLD HUNDRED. L. M.; on tune book, right: EASTPORT. C. M.

Wikidata ID

Q20186375


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