Mount Vernon
1806
Artist, American, 1788 - 1819
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 94 x 134.6 cm (37 x 53 in.)
framed: 109.8 x 151.1 x 4.4 cm (43 1/4 x 59 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1956.13.6
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from the Clifford Crowninshield House, Salem, Massachusetts, possibly removed before 1916.[1] (Harry Shaw Newman, New York); sold 1954 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1956.
[1] According to the Garbisch records, the painting hung at one time over a mantel in this house. A 1916 photograph of the parlor mantel shows a large mirror, not a painting (Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley, The Wood-carver of Salem, Samuel McIntire, His Life and Work, Boston, 1916: pl. 63). If the painting had been over this mantel, it must have been removed by 1916. The house had another mantel as well. An illustration of 1940 does not include the overmantel area (Fiske Kimball, Mr. Samuel McIntire, Carver, the Architect of Salem, Portland, Maine,1940: fig. 258).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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. 4.
The American Primitive Paintings Exhibit, organized by the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, for de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, 1968.
1970
Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1970-1974.
1976
Extended loan for use by Secretary Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1976-1977.
1977
Extended loan for use by the Secretary, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1977-1980.
1982
Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Dublin, Ireland, 1982-1986.
1989
Washington Salutes Washington: The President and the State, Washington State Capitol Museum, Seattle; Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, 1989, 13, (cat. by Marcus Cunliffe, David L. Coon, and Albert F. Appleton).
1990
Extended loan for use by Secretary Jack Kemp, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.
1997
Extended loan for use by Secretary Andrew Cuomo, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 1997-2001.
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 94, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 216, repro.
1985
Rubin, Cynthia Elyce. Southern Folk Art. Birmingham, Alabama, 1985: color repro. 70.
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: 324-326, repro. 325.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 272, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: G. Ropes / Salem 1806
Wikidata ID
Q20182128