Berks County Almshouse, 1895, 1895

Not on View

Medium

oil on metal

Dimensions

overall: 82.9 x 100.7 cm (32 5/8 x 39 5/8 in.)

framed: 95.2 x 113.5 x 4.7 cm (37 1/2 x 44 11/16 x 1 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1953.5.25

Artists / Makers

Louis Mader (artist) American, 1842 - 1899 or after

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Inscription

lower right: Louis Mader; lower center: View of the Berks-County-Almshouse, 1895. / DIRECTORS: DR. WM. H. SEITZINGER--JOHN A. HIESTER--JONATHAN W. SCHWARTZ. / STEWARD: JOHN W. GILBERT--UNDER STEWARD: OLIVER C. SITLER. / CLERK: SAMUEL M. DECK.

Provenance

Recorded as from Reading, Pennsylvania. Purchased in 1947 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1968: Pennsylvania Almshouse Painters--Charles Hofmann, John Rasmussen and Louis Mader, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1968, unpaginated and unnumbered (cat. by Thomas Armstrong).

1978: The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 80, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 197, repro.

1980: Armstrong, Thomas. "Charles C. Hofmann." In Lipman, Jean, and Tom Armstrong, eds. American Folk Painters of Three Centuries. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1950: 103-109. (discusses Almshouse as institution).

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 230, 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: 249-250, repro. 250.