Lady Wearing Pearls

c. 1830

Artwork overview

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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

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