The Finish
c. 1860
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
painted surface: 58.7 x 95.3 cm (23 1/8 x 37 1/2 in.)
support: 65.8 x 95.8 cm (25 7/8 x 37 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1980.61.9
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from Rhode Island. Mrs. Lunsford P. Yandell, Greenwich, Connecticut, who gave it in the late 1920s or early 1930s to her daughter, Mrs. John W. Hanes [Hope Yandell Hanes], New York. Sold by Mrs. Hanes in 1964 to (Wildenstein and Company, New York), by whom sold in 1964 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[1] by bequest to NGA, 1980.
[1] Hope Yandell Hanes, letter of 23 February 1987, in NGA curatorial files, details the Yandell family provenance in this way. She states that her mother found the painting in the Boston area, but Wildenstein recorded that it was found in Rhode Island. E.J. Rousuck, vice president, Wildenstein and Company, letter to the Garbisches of 15 February 1955, in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1968
American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 84. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.
Bibliography
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: 476-478, color repro. 477.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 401, repro.
Inscriptions
on judges stand: 2-6; on newspaper of fifth man at lower left:BOSTON HERALD
Wikidata ID
Q20188418