Catherine Brower

1791

MacKay

Associated Names
MacKay

Painter, American, active 1791

The image features a young girl standing facing the viewer. She holds a red flower in her right hand and a small bunch of pink flowers in her left hand. She has delicate features, light skin, long brown hair with bangs, and wears a white dress with blue sash. She wears red shoes, a black bead necklace, and an orange earring. Next to her is a pedestal with a vase of colorful flowers. The background shows a blue sky and trees.

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from Connecticut. (Harry Shaw Newman, Old Print Shop, New York), by whom sold in 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1956.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1948

  • Up from the Cradle, New-York Historical Society, New York, 1948-1949, no. 20, no cat.

1957

  • American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957, no. 24.

1961

  • Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1961-1962.

1967

  • National Gallery Loan Exhibition, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1967, no. 5.

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. 6.

1972

  • The Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries, A. A. Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; New Haven Colony Historical Society, Connecticut, 1972-1973, no. 23 (cat. by Christine S. Schloss).

Bibliography

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 80, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 196, 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: 247, repro. 248.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 230, repro.

Inscriptions

on face of pedestal: Mackay Pinxt. [1]791

Wikidata ID

Q20179874

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