Two McLaughlin Pears, n.d.

Not on View

Medium

oil on board

Dimensions

overall: 21.59 × 26.67 cm (8 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)

framed: 34.29 × 39.69 × 6.99 cm (13 1/2 × 15 5/8 × 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

Accession Number

2018.44.12

Artists / Makers

Jeremiah Pearson Hardy (painter) American, 1800 - 1888

Image Use

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Provenance

William H. Gerdts [1929-2020], New York, by at least 1965;[1] gift 2018 to NGA.

[1] Gerdts lent the painting to a circa 1965 exhibition at the American Federation of the Arts in New York; per documentation provided by Abigail Booth Gerdts, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Gerdts, William H., Dr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1965: [Still lifes of edible subjects from the collection of William H. Gerdts, on occasion of publication of cookbook by William and Lois Katzenbach], Board Room, American Federation of the Arts, New York, c. 1965, no catalogue, label no. 29.

1976: American Cornucopia: 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies, The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1976, no. 8, as Two Pears.

1998: For Beauty and For Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life, Mead Art Museum, Amherst; Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1998, unnumbered catalogue, repro.