Negro Boys on the Quayside
c. 1865
Painter, American, active c. 1865
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund and William A. Clark Fund)
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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.) -
Accession
2014.136.80
Artwork history & notes
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
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The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004-7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.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American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.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.
Inscriptions
on box in center left foreground, upside down: David Norslup BXDXVII
Wikidata ID
Q46629464