Woman Holding a Book

c. 1835

Erastus Salisbury Field

Artist, American, 1805 - 1900

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from Massachusetts. (David Stockwell, Wilmington, Delaware), by whom sold in 1954 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • Picturing Gentility: Portraits of Women in American Art, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, 2000, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 7.

2010

  • American Naive Paintings from the Garbisch Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, 2010, no cat.

Bibliography

1963

  • French, Reginald F., and Agnes M. Dods. "Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 28 (October 1963): 123, no. 195 (includes their "Checklist of Paintings attributed to E. S. Field").

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: 115, 119, repro. 118.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 179, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20186059

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