Uncle Sam Shielding France from Germania, c. 1917

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink over graphite on heavy wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 56.83 × 42.86 cm (22 3/8 × 16 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Orme Wilson)

Accession Number

2015.19.1037

Artists / Makers

Charles Dana Gibson (artist) American, 1867 - 1944

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Inscription

lower right in pen and black ink: C. D. Gibson; center verso in blue colored pencil by unknown hand: 19481 [circled]; center verso in graphite by unknown hand: #34 [strikethrough and circled] / #35 [circled]; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 22 1/2 / 28

Provenance

(Berry-Hill Galleries, New York); Orme Wilson, Washington, DC, 1965; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1965; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Berry-Hill Galleries
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Wilson, Orme

Exhibition History

1965: Charles Dana Gibson, 1867-1944: Creator of the 'Gibson Girl', Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1965, no. 35

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 129, no. 868.