Sarah Ogden Gustin
c. 1805
Artist, American, born c. 1763, active 1796 - 1824
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 63
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 71.1 x 57.2 cm (28 x 22 1/2 in.)
framed: 83.2 x 69.8 x 8.8 cm (32 3/4 x 27 1/2 x 3 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1971.83.7
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Descended in the family of the sitter, probably to her sister-in-law, Delilah Gustin Hunter; probably to her son, William Hunter, Sr.; to his daughter, Emily Frances Hunter (Mrs. George Cross); to her daughter, Mrs. Daisy (Cross) Somers; to her cousin, Katherine Mahon Hunter;[1] by whom sold in 1961 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1971.
[1] According to Jessie Hunter, the wife of William Hunter, a descendant of Katherine (Katy) Mahon Hunter, Daisy Somers was cleaning out her attic and had decided only to keep the frame of the portrait. She had already placed the canvas with a pile of things to be burned. Katy Hunter rescued the portrait and brought it home with her. (Undated curator's notes from conversation with Jessie Hunter, in NGA curatorial file.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1975
Jacob Frymire--American Limner, traveling exhibition, 1975-1976, no. 37, (cat. by Linda Crocker Simmons). First venue: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington.
1981
Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), A Limner and His Likenesses, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Dayton Art Institute; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1981-1982, no. x.171.
1983
[Loan to display with new acquisition by Joshua Johnson], Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983-1984.
1985
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, traveling exh. by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1985-1987, no. 40, color repro., detail p. 24. First venue: Museum of American Folk Art, New York.
Sharing Traditions, Five Black Artists in Nineteenth-Century America, National Museum of American Art, Washington, circulated by SITES, 1985-1988, figs. 1 and 2 (shown only in Washington, 1985).
1987
Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, 1987-1988, no. 4, color repro. (not shown at two Whitney Museum venues, NY and Stamford, CT).
1988
La Nascita di Una Nazione: Pittori americani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington 1730-1880, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna; Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca'Pesaro, Venice, 1988-1989, no. 40, repro.
Bibliography
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 185, repro.
1981
Rumford, Beatrix T., ed. American Folk Portraits: Paintings and Drawings from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center. Boston, 1981: 132-133.
1985
Harrington, Lynda Roscoe. Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in Nineteenth-Century America. Exh. cat. National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, 1985: 40-41, fig. 1-2, cat. 2, 44, 46, 49, note 6.
1987
Weekley, Carolyn. "Joshua Johnson." Antiques 132 (September): color pl. 1.
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: 230-232, color repro. 231.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 214, repro.
2021
Fulco, Daniel. "Joshua Johnson: Pioneer of American Portraiture." Joshua Johnson: Portraitist of Early American Baltimore. Hagerstown, MD, 2021: 22, 98, fig. 21.
Inscriptions
lower left on top right-hand page of book: JOSHU[A]JOHNSON; and below: JJ (in monogram)
Wikidata ID
Q20181976