Vase of Flowers, 1875

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 61 x 51.4 cm (24 x 20 1/4 in.)

framed: 76.84 × 66.04 × 6.99 cm (30 1/4 × 26 × 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

Accession Number

2003.38.1

Artists / Makers

George Cochran Lambdin (painter) American, 1830 - 1896

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: Geo. C. Lambdin 1875

Provenance

Paul Lane, TIvoli, New York, 1954. Possibly James H. Ricau [1916-1993], New York;[1] William H. [1929-2020] and Abigail Booth Gerdts, New York, by at least 1966;[2] gift (partial and promised) 2003 to NGA.

[1] William Gerdts recalls that the Lambdin, or another painting, may have been the painting given to him by Ricau after Gerdts located for him a lost painting by Wright of Derby. See Gerdts' introduction in For Beauty and for Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life; exh. cat., Mead Art Museum, Amherst College and Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York; Amherst, 1998: 17.

[2] William Gerdts lent the painting to a 1966 exhibition.

Associated Names

Gerdts, William H., Dr. and Mrs.
Ricau, James Henri

Exhibition History

1966: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painting from the Collections of Henry M. Fuller and William H. Gerdts, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, 1966, no. 39, repro., as Flowers in a Vase.

1968: The American Vision: Paintings 1825-1875, The [New York] Public Education Association at M. Knoedler and Co., Hirschl and Adler Galleries, and Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, 1968, no. 45, repro. (shown at M. Knoedler and Co.).

1976: Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976, no. 341, repro.

1981: Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, 1801 – 1939, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa; Oakland Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; National Academy of Design, New York, 1981-82, plate 12.

1998: For Beauty and For Truth, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst; Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1998, unnumbered catalogue, pl. 6.

Bibliography

1971: Gerdts, William H., and Russell Burke. American Still-Life Painting. New York, 1971: 92, pl. XI.

1981: Gerdts, William H. Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life 1801-1939. Columbia, 1981: 123-125, pl. 12.