Birds
c. 1840
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 43.1 x 35.5 cm (16 15/16 x 14 in.)
framed: 53 x 45.4 x 2.8 cm (20 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 1 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1978.80.12
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from New York. (Harry Stone, New York), by whom sold in 1945 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1978.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1980
Extended loan, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1980-1985.
2010
American Naive Paintings from the Garbisch Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, 2010, no cat.
Bibliography
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 265, 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: 421-423, color repro. 422.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 389, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20186582