Horizon of the New World
c. 1830
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 77.6 x 167 cm (30 9/16 x 65 3/4 in.)
framed: 84.7 x 174.3 x 2.8 cm (33 3/8 x 68 5/8 x 1 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1980.62.29
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from New York. (H. Gregory Gulick, Middletown, New Jersey), by whom sold in 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1961
101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Federation of Arts, New York, 1961-1964, no. 42, color repro. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.
1986
Extended loan for use by Ambassador Frank Wisner, U.S. Embassy residence, Cairo, Egypt, 1986-1991.
1992
Extended loan for use by Ambassador Richard Stone, U.S. Embassy residence, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1992-1993.
1995
Extended loan for use by Ambassador Jeonnone Walker, U.S. Embassy residence, Prague, 1995-1998.
Bibliography
1974
Moore, James Collins. "The Storm and The Harvest: The Image of Nature in Mid-nineteenth Century American Landscape Painting." Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1974: 205-207.
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: 496-497, color repro. 496.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 404, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20185687