His Granddaughters Discover He Knows the Words of the Star Spangled Banner, 1920s

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Medium

pen and black ink over graphite on paperboard

Dimensions

sheet: 36.2 × 53.02 cm (14 1/4 × 20 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Orme Wilson)

Accession Number

2015.19.1036

Artists / Makers

Charles Dana Gibson (artist) American, 1867 - 1944

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Inscription

lower center in pen and black ink: C. D. Gibson; lower center in graphite: Mr. Pipp no 5. His granddaughters discover that he know the words of the star spangled banner

Provenance

(Berry-Hill Galleries, New York); Orme Wilson, Washington, DC, 1961; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1965; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Berry-Hill Galleries
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Wilson, Orme

Exhibition History

1943: [exhibition title unknown], Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 1943

1961: [exhibition title unknown], Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1961

1981: The Artist as Illustrator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981

1984: Twentieth Century American Drawings: The Figure in Context, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin; National Academy of Desing, New York, 1984-1985, p. 56, repro

1986: American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 45-46

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 129, no. 869.