Baby in Blue
c. 1845
Painter, American, 1806 - 1873
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on paper on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
painted surface: 60.3 x 43.2 cm (23 3/4 x 17 in.)
support: 60.6 x 43.7 cm (23 7/8 x 17 3/16 in.)
framed: 74.6 x 57.5 x 3.2 cm (29 3/8 x 22 5/8 x 1 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1953.5.58
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from New Hampshire. Purchased in 1949 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1951
American Primitive Art, 1750-1950, Milwaukee Art Institute, 1951, no. 2, as by an unkown Fall River artist.
1968
American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Columbus, Georgia, 1968-1969, no. 16.
1976
American Cat-alogue: The Cat in American Folk Art, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, 1976, no. 80 (catalogue by Bruce Johnson).
1988
A Little Bestiary: Naive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, 1988, no catalogue.
2010
American Naive Paintings from the Garbisch Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, 2010, no catalogue.
2016
Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America, American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2016-2017, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 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: 297-299, color repro. 298.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 266, repro.
2013
Schorsch, David A. "Pictures within Pictures: Photographs of American Folk Paintings 1840-1880." Antiques (September/October 2013): 102, fig. 2, 106.
Wikidata ID
Q20187289