Marble Tabletop with Fruit and Wineglass, 1869

Not on View

Medium

oil on board

Dimensions

overall: 30.48 × 40.96 cm (12 × 16 1/8 in.)

framed: 40.64 × 50.8 × 5.08 cm (16 × 20 × 2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

Accession Number

2018.44.16

Artists / Makers

Milne Ramsey (painter) American, 1846 - 1915

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center right: Milne Ramsey / 069

Provenance

William H. Gerdts [1929-2020], New York, by at least 1965;[1] gift 2018 to NGA.

[1] Gerdts lent the painting to a circa 1965 exhibition at the American Federation of the Arts in New York; per documentation provided by Abigail Booth Gerdts, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Gerdts, William H., Dr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1965: [Still lifes of edible subjects from the collection of William H. Gerdts, on occasion of publication of cookbook by William and Lois Katzenbach], Board Room, American Federation of the Arts, New York, c. 1965, no catalogue, label no. 35.

1988: Penn's Promise: Still LIfe Painting in Pennsylvania, 1795 - 1930, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA, 1988, no. 99.

Bibliography

1971: Gerdts, William H., and Russell Burke. American Still-Life Painting. New York, 1971: 85, 176, 242, fig. 5-29.