Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 67 x 60.7 cm (26 3/8 x 23 7/8 in.)
framed: 69.2 x 76.5 x 4.4 cm (27 1/4 x 30 1/8 x 1 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1980.62.10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from Maryland. Collateral descendants of the sitter to Joseph Chamberlaine Hayward, Easton, Maryland,[1] by whom sold in 1948 through (Richard Goldsborough, Easton, Maryland) to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.
[1] Alice Winchester, in "Antiques" (editorial), Antiques 65 (April, 1954), 283, cites the descent through collateral descendants. A letter to the Garbisches from Richard Goldsborough (22 March 1948, in NGA curatorial files) lists the genealogy through Joseph Chamberlaine Hayward.
Associated Names
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. 11.
1961
101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Federation of Arts, New York, 1961-1964, no. 10, color repro., as by John Hesselius. First venue: Metropolitan Mus. of Art, N.Y.
Bibliography
1954
Winchester, Alice. "Antiques" (editorial), Antiques 65 (April 1954): 282-283.
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: 586-588, color repro. 587.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 424, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20177956