Muster Day
1843 or after
Painter, American, 1812 - 1893
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 55.9 x 83.9 cm (22 x 33 1/16 in.)
framed: 68.3 x 97.2 x 8.6 cm (26 7/8 x 38 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1980.62.32
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from New Hampshire. (Robert Schuyler Tompkins, Montague, Massachusetts), by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1985
Extended loan for use by Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Trade Representative, Washington, D.C., 1985-1988.
1988
The Art of Charles Henry Granger (1812-1893), York Institute Museum, Saco, Maine, 1988, no cat.
1990
Extended loan for use by Secretary Jack Kemp, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.
1997
Loan for display with permanent collection, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, 1997.
2008
Extended loan for use by Secretary Ed Schafer, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 2008.
2010
American Naive Paintings from the Garbisch Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, 2010, no cat.
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: 153-156, color repro. 155.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 189, repro.
Inscriptions
on sign at lower left: Bear O! Pi / Aiggs
Wikidata ID
Q20187060