Martha Eliza Stevens Edgar Paschall
c. 1823
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Gift of Mary Paschall Young Doty and Katharine Campbell Young Keck
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Dimensions
overall: 132.5 x 102.6 cm (52 3/16 x 40 3/8 in.)
framed: 141.6 x 111.3 x 6.2 cm (55 3/4 x 43 13/16 x 2 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1983.95.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The sitter, St. Louis, to her daughter Eugenia Paschall (later Mrs. Walter Carr), St. Louis; inherited by her daughter, Martha Eliza Carr (later Mrs. John Young), St. Louis, who took the painting with her to Geneseo, New York; given to her daughters, Mary Paschall Young Doty and Katharine Campbell Young Keck. The painting remained with Mrs. Doty in Geneseo until 1970, then came to Mrs. Keck, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 1983.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1974, no. 14, color repro. (cat. by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester).
1976
Portraits U.S.A., 1776-1976, Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1976, 44-45, color repro., (cat by Harold E. Dickson).
1977
Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940, St. Louis Art Musuem, 1977, no. 5 (cat. by Judith A. Barter and Lynn E. Springer).
1993
Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840, Baltimore Museum of Art; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1993-1994, no. 185, repro. (cat. by Wendy A. Cooper).
2004
American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840, Milwaukee Art Museum; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem; Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, 2004-2005, fig. 229.
Bibliography
1907
Roberts, James H. "The Life and Times of General John Edgar." Transactions of the Illinois Historical Society, 1907: 12:71-73. (contains most of the known biographical information about the sitter).
1974
American Art Review 1 (March/April 1974): color repro. on cover.
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: 565-567, color repro. 566.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 416, repro.
1993
Cooper, Wendy A. Classical Taste in America. Exh. cat. The Baltimore Museum of Art; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. New York, 1993:226-227, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20184767