Inscription
on reverse (no longer visible, photograph in object file [1953.5.51] in NGA curatorial records): Mrs. J. B Sheldon / Unionville, O
Provenance
Mrs. Jerome Bonapart Sheldon [née Caroline Grover, c. 1829-1872 or later], Unionville, Ohio.[1] Purchased in Clyde, New York, by (Downtown Gallery, New York), by whom sold in 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
Exhibition History
- 1948
- The American Family, Folk Paintings 1750-1850, Downtown Gallery, New York, 1948, no. 5, as Mrs. J. B. Sheldon.
- 1954
- American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 56, as Mrs. J. B. Sheldon.
- 1955
- American Primitive Pantings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
- 1957
- American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957.
- 1973
- Asahel Powers: Painter of Vermont Faces, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, 1973, no. 26, as Mrs. J. B. Sheldon, (cat. by Nina Fletcher Little).
- 2010
- American Naive Paintings from the Garbisch Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, 2010, no cat.
- 2019
- Edith Halpert: The Downtown Gallery and the Rise of American Art, Jewish Museum, New York, New York, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
- 1949
- Ford, Alice. Pictorial Folk Art: New England to California. New York and London, 1949: 72-73.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 90, repro., as Mrs. J.B. Sheldon.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 211, repro.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 543, no. 818, color repro., as Mrs. J.B. Sheldon.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 265, 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: 291, 294, color repro. 292.
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