Man with a Tune Book: Possibly Mr. Cook
c. 1838
Artist, American, 1805 - 1900
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 89.1 x 73.8 cm (35 1/16 x 29 1/16 in.)
framed: 97.1 x 81.6 x 4.7 cm (38 1/4 x 32 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1978.80.6
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