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The Gansevoort Limner (Possibly Pieter Vanderlyn)

Susanna Truax, 1730

Not on View

Medium

oil on bed ticking

Dimensions

overall: 95.9 x 83.8 cm (37 3/4 x 33 in.)

framed: 111.1 x 96.5 x 4.1 cm (43 3/4 x 38 x 1 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.62.31

Artists / Makers

Pieter Vanderlyn (painter) American, c. 1687 - 1778

The Gansevoort Limner (painter) American, active 1730/1745

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Inscription

upper left: Susanna Truax / Gebooren den 8 [--]: 1726, / Geschilderd, Maart, 1730 [translated as: "Susanna Truax / born 8 November: 1726, / Painted, March 1730"]

Provenance

Descended in the family of Andries Truax, [the sitter] Susanna Truax's brother, to Katherine Landon Fuguet until 1946.[1] John P. Kinsey, by whom sold in 1949 (Charles F. Montgomery as agent) to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

[1] Additional Truax descendants listed in Ownership Detail below are per genealogical notes by Katherine Landon Fuguet, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Fuguet, Katharine Gilmour Landon
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Kinsey, John P.
Landon, Mary Truax Gilmour
Truax, Abraham A.
Truax, Andrew, Dr.
Truax, Andries

Exhibition History

1954: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 15.

1955: American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955 (replaced another painting and shown about one week).

1958: American Folk Art. Part of American Art. Four Exhibitions, Brussels Universal and International Exhibition, Belgium, 1958, no. 47, 35, as by Unknown.

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. 7, color repro., as by Unknown. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

1967: Merchants and Planters of the Upper Hudson Valley 1700-1750, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Albany Institute of History and Art; Museum of American Folk Art and New-York Historical Soc., New York, 1967, unnumbered brochure.

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 American Federation of Arts, NY, 1968-1970, no. 8, repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

1970: American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, organzied by the American Federation of Arts, NY, and Mainichi News., Nihobashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1970, no cat.

1985: American Naive Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Exh. cat. Traveling exh. by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1985-1987, no. 30, color frontispiece. First venue: Museum of American Folk Art, New York.

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. 30, repro.

2000: "A fresh and large assortment": American Silver from a Private Collection, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2000, no cat.

2009: Steeped in History: The Art of Tea, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, 2009, no. 6.1, repro.

Bibliography

1959: Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. American Colonial Painting: Materials for a History. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959: pl. 71, no. 4.

1963: Heydenryk, Henry. The Art and History of Frames. New York, 1963: 98, fig. 88.

1966: Curran, Ona. "A Study of Portraits of Schenectady Residents, 1715-1750." M.A. thesis, State University of New York College at Oneonta, Cooperstown Graduate Program, 1966: 25, 29, 86-88, 114, 136-137.

1969: Black, Mary C. "The Gansevoort Limner." Antiques 96 (November 1969): 738, 741-742.

1971: Black, Mary C. "Pieter Vanderlyn and Other Limners of the Upper Hudson." In American Painting to 1776: A Reappraisal. Edited by Ian M. G. Quimby. Charlottesville, Va., 1971: 239.

1980: Brant, Sandra, and Elissa Cullman. Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in America. New York, 1980: 69, color pl. 108.

1988: Blackburn, Roderic H., and Ruth Piwonka. Rememberance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America 1609-1776. Exh. cat. Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, 1988: no. 237, color repro. 225.

1988: Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 86, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 186, 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: 143-145, color repro. 144.

1993: Miles, Ellen G., ed. The Portrait in Eighteenth-Century America. Newark, 1993, fig. 16.