Five Children of the Budd Family, c. 1818

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 121 x 106.4 cm (47 5/8 x 41 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1959.11.8

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on book page: 140 / JUVENILE TALES

Provenance

Recorded as from Pennsylvania. Descended through the Budd and Hull families to Blanche Hull. Sold to (William S. Bowers, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania), by whom sold in 1954 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[1] gift to NGA, 1959.

[1] A letter to Colonel Garbisch of 7 November 1954 from the dealer William S. Bowers (in NGA curatorial files), states that the painting was brought by a Mary Budd from Lancaster to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in about 1880. This letter and one from Bowers to William Campbell of 6 May 1957, indicate that this Mary was the daughter of Charles Budd (1822-1880), Samuel Woolston Budd's tenth child (not depicted in the portrait). Bowers states that the last Budd who owned the portrait, apparently a child of Mary Budd, married a Hull and died in 1914. The portrait was then passed down through the Hull family to Blanche Hull, the last of its second generation. Bowers purchased the portrait from Blanche Hull.

Associated Names

Bowers, William S.
Budd family
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Hull, Blanche

Exhibition History

1957: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957, no. 44.

1983: Extended loan for use by Ambassadors Louis Arthur Tambs and Charles A. Gillespie, U.S. Embassy residence, Bogotà, Colombia, 1983-1986.

1988: A Little Bestiary: Naive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, 1988, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 134, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 275, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 401, 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: 478-481, repro. 479.