Sisters in Red
c. 1840/1850
Painter, American, active 1837/1856
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 63.5 x 76.5 cm (25 x 30 1/8 in.)
framed: 81.3 x 94.3 x 6.2 cm (32 x 37 1/8 x 2 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1980.62.19
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from Provincetown, Massachusetts. (Clifford Harrington, Walcliff Antiques, city unknown), by whom sold in 1951 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1954
American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 46.
Bibliography
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: 167, color repro. 169.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 191, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20186862