The Landing of Columbus

c. 1837

Edward Hicks

Artist, American, 1780 - 1849

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Painted for the family of William Janney, Newtown, Pennsylvania; taken south by Mary Janney after her marriage. Given by a member of the Goose Creek Meeting, Loudon County, Virginia, to a family in Silver Spring, Maryland.[1] (Robert Carlen, Philadelphia); sold to (Edith Gregor Halpert, Downtown Gallery, New York); sold 1945 to (M. Knoedler and Co., New York); sold 1945 to Joseph Katz, New York; sold 1947 to (M. Knoedler and Co., New York); sold 1947 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Pokety Farms, Cambridge, Maryland; bequest 1980 to NGA.
[1] Alice Ford, Edward Hicks, His Life and Art (New York, 1985), 136, states that the painting was discovered in Purcelville, Virginia, though this may refer to Goose Creek Meeting [a Quaker sect], as both are in Loudon County. (A letter from Ford of 18 January 1988, in NGA curatorial files, states that this information was provided to her by Mrs. Garbisch.) The references to Mary Janney taking the painting "south" after her marriage, cited in Eleanore Price Mather, Edward Hicks: His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings, Newark, Delaware, 1983: 205, no. 116, probably refers to Loudon County. Attempts to confirm this, as well as to determine when this journey occurred and how Mary was related to William Janney, have been unsuccessful.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1957

  • American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957, not included in cat.

1960

  • Edward Hicks, 1780-1849, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1960, no. 18.

1994

  • Loan to display with permanent collection, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1994-2019.

Bibliography

1945

  • Price, Frederick Newlin. Edward Hicks 1780-1849. The Benjamin West Society, Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania., 1945: 6, 26.

1952

  • Ford, Alice. Edward Hicks, Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom. Philadelphia, 1952: xiii, xiv, 145.

1983

  • Mather, Eleanore Price. Edward Hicks: His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings. Newark, Delaware, 1983: 205, no. 116.

1985

  • Ford, Alice. Edward Hicks, His Life and Art. New York, 1985: 136-137, color 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: 187-188, repro. 188.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 201, repro.

1998

  • Ford, Alice. Edward Hicks, Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom. Philadelphia, 1998: 145, repro.

Inscriptions

bottom center: COLUMBUS

Wikidata ID

Q20186214

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