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American 18th Century

Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town, 1783 or after

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 53.3 x 70.8 cm (21 x 27 7/8 in.)

framed: 60.3 x 77.4 x 3.8 cm (23 3/4 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1953.5.86

Artists / Makers

American 18th Century (artist)

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Inscription

center left: BOSTON; upper right: CHARLES TOWN

Provenance

Recorded as from New York. (Harry Stone Gallery, New York, by 1943),[1] by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.

[1] In this year Stone lent the painting to exhibitions at the Lyman Allyn Museum in New London, Connecticut, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Stone Gallery, Harry
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1943: Boston, 1630-1872, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1943, no cat.

1943: Navy Show, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, 1943, no cat.

1944: American Battle Painting, 1776-1918, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1944, 54, pl. 3.

1965: Trois millenaires d'art et de marine, Petit Palais du Louvre, 1965, 401, no. 281.

1967: National Gallery Loan Exhibition, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1967, no. 6.

1972: Extended loan for use by Caspar Weinberger, Director of the Budget and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C., 1972-1975.

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

1981: Amerian Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, no. 36 (cat. by Ronald McKnight Melvin).

1982: Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1982-1985.

1986: Extended loan for use by the White House Preservation Office in the ceremonial office of the Vice President, Old Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1986-1997.

1997: Extended loan for display in the ceremonial office of Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., Old Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1997-2001.

2001: Extended loan for display in the ceremonial office of Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building (formerly Old Executive Office Building), Washington, D.C., 2001-

Bibliography

1942: Drepperd, Carl W. American Pioneer Arts and Artists. Springfield, Massachusetts, 1942: 87.

1968: Coit, Margaret L. "Dearest Friends." American Heritage 19 (October 1968): 10-11, color repro.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 126, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 264, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 388, 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: 410-412, color repro. 411.