Martin Luther

c. 1800

Frederick Kemmelmeyer

Painter, American, active 1788/1816

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 148.59 × 121.92 cm (58 1/2 × 48 in.)
    framed: 165.58 × 139.38 × 9.84 cm (65 3/16 × 54 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.136.142

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Farm auction, New Baltimore, Virginia); Mr. and Mrs. Gurney P. Sloan, Dunedin, Florida; purchased 7 November 1973 by (Hirschl & Adler, New York);[1] purchased 11 February 1981 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The early provenance comes from Mr. Sloan's letter of 7 November 1973 to Hirschl & Adler, which is quoted in an e-mail of 17 April 2008 from Zachary Ross at Hirschl & Adler to Emily Shapiro at the Corcoran; in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

-1

  • Possibly American Folk Art, Commerce Union Bank, Nashville.[1]

1977

  • American Folk Art, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 26 November - 29 December 1977, no. 2, frontispiece.

1982

  • Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist, as Portrait of a Clergyman (Martin Luther?).

1983

  • Reflections of Faith: Religious Folk Art in America, Museum of American Folk Art at the IBM Gallery, New York, 6 December 1983 - 21 January 1984, catalogue with no checklist, fig. 191, as by an Unidentified Artist, Portrait of a Clergyman.

2005

  • Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, no. 6.

2013

  • Painters and Paintings in the American South, DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, 2013-2014.

2017

  • The Luther Effect: Protestantism - 500 Years in the World, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2017, no. 25, repro.

Bibliography

1983

  • Dewhurst, C. Kurt, Betty MacDowell, and Marsha MacDowell. Religious Folk Art in America: Reflections of Faith. New York, 1983: 98, 137 fig. 191.

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 305, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q46626058

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