Martha Eliza Stevens Edgar Paschall

c. 1823

American 19th Century

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American 19th Century

Artist

The image shows a person seated on a chair. They face slightly sideways, with one hand on the back of the chair. They have fair skin, dark eyes, and dark curly hair styled up with curls around the forehead. The person is dressed in a light blue dress with ruffled sleeves and a ruffled collar. The dress has white lace details, a decorative belt with a gold buckle, and is paired with blue stockings and shoes with floral detailing. They hold a small white bag or purse and wear earrings and a necklace made of blue beads. The background is plain brown with a patterned floor beneath them.

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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.

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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

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