Negro Boys on the Quayside, c. 1865

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Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 40.32 × 49.53 cm (15 7/8 × 19 1/2 in.)

framed: 40.64 × 48.9 × 4.45 cm (16 × 19 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund and William A. Clark Fund)

Accession Number

2014.136.80

Artists / Makers

David Norslup (painter) American, active c. 1865

Image Use

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Inscription

on box in center left foreground, upside down: David Norslup BXDXVII

Provenance

Private collection; purchased by (Victor D. Spark, New York); purchased 1960 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Spark, Victor D.

Exhibition History

1966: Past and Present, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966.

1980: African Image, Walters Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 1980.

1981: Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Cincinnati Art Museum; San Diego Museum of Art; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Des Moines Art Center; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, 1981-1983, no. 23, as David Norslup (?).

2004: Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004-7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 311, repro.