Girl in a Pink Dress, c. 1790

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 101.8 x 72.1 cm (40 1/16 x 28 3/8 in.)

framed: 112.7 x 83.2 x 4.2 cm (44 3/8 x 32 3/4 x 1 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1953.5.24

Artists / Makers

The Beardsley Limner (painter) American, active 1785/1805

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Provenance

Recorded as from Massachusetts. (Richard C. Morrison, Fenway Art Center, Boston), by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Morrison, Richard C.
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1957: Little-Known Connecticut Artist 1790-1810, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1957-1958, cat. by Nina Fletcher Little in Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 22 (October 1957): 106, 117, no. 14.

1968: The American Primitive Paintings Exhibit, organized by the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, for the de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, 1968.

1972: The Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries, A. A. Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; New Haven Colony Historical Society, Connecticut, 1972-1973, no. 6 (cat. by Christine Skeeles Sch

1981: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, no. 6 (cat. by Ronald McKnight Melvin).

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 136, repro.

1973: Schloss, Christine Skeeles. "The Beardsley Limner." Antiques 103 (March 1973): 534, fig. 5.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 24, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 27, repro.

1992: Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 14-16, color repro. 15.