Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 88.9 x 71.1 cm (35 x 28 in.)
framed: 99.7 x 81.9 x 4.4 cm (39 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1953.5.73
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from New York State.[1] (Harry Stone, New York, by 1942),[2] by whom sold in 1946 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
[1] The caption published in a special issue of Art Lover 1 (November/December 1945), no. 6, indicates that the painting was found in upper New York State. This issue served as a catalogue for the exhibition, "Harry Stone Collection of American Primitive Paintings," New Art Circle, J.B. Neumann Gallery, New York, 1945. [2] In which year the work was included in an exhibition (title unknown) at Stone's gallery in New York.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1942
Title unknown, Harry Stone Gallery, New York, 1942.
1945
Harry Stone Collection of American Primitive Paintings, New Art Circle, J. B. Neumann Gallery, New York, no. 6; special isssue of Art Lover 1 (November/December 1945) as cat.
1972
Extended loan for use by Ambassador Strauz-Hupe, U.S. Embassy residence, Brussels, Belgium, 1972-1977.
Bibliography
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 278, 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: 515-517, repro. 516.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 407, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20185692