Child with Straw Hat
c. 1846/1873
Artist, American, 1806 - 1873
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 76.5 x 60.5 cm (30 1/8 x 23 13/16 in.)
framed: 86.7 x 71.4 x 5.4 cm (34 1/8 x 28 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1978.80.9
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from New Hampshire. (Mrs. H. L. Henderson, city unknown), by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1978.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1954
American Primitive Painting, traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Inst. for the U.S. Information Service, Washington, 1954-1955, no. 58. First venue: Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland.
1962
Exhibition of Early American Art, Academy of the Arts, Talbot County Historical Society, Easton, Maryland, 1962, no. 14.
1995
Is She or Isn't He? Identifying Gender in Folk Portraits of Children. Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1995, no. 30, repro.
2012
Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed, Fenimore Art Museum, New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown; American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2012, no. 34, repro.
Bibliography
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 212, 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: 301, repro. 302.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 267, repro.
Inscriptions
on reverse (no longer visible, photograph in object file [1978.80.9] in NGA curatorial records): Wm. M Prior 3 Section Trenton Street / East Boston
Wikidata ID
Q20187620