New England Farm in Winter

1850 or after

American 19th Century

Associated Names
American 19th Century

Painter

The painting depicts a winter scene. The horizon is in the top third of the image, with a line of dark evergreen trees below a sky of soft blues and hints of yellow. Closer to us, a flat expanse of land with several buildings on it is covered in snow. A woman and child on the right stand near a house with chickens nearby. The chickens fill the snow, and the woman is turned to the left, one arm outstretched towards them and the other holding a large bowl. The child is behind her legs, looking back at a small cat or dog that stands on the right. The woman and child are in front of a low, blue-gray stone building with a roof covered in snow. Another child looks out from inside the building. On the left, past the chickens, a wooden fence leads to a barn with two horses inside of it. In the center, two cattle stand next to a round shed or silo. Behind these buildings, leafless trees stand with snow on their branches. The color palette includes white, grey, green, and brown.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from Hampden Highlands, Maine.[1] (Daisy C. Miller, city unknown). (Robert G. Hall, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine), by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
[1] A letter to Colonel Garbisch from Rebecca Shepherd dated 9 May 1957, in NGA curatorial files, states that Miller bought the painting "in Hampden Maine from the attic of one of the old houses there, the day of an auction." The Garbisches' own records identify this location as Hampden Highlands.

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Exhibition History

1954

  • American Primitive Painting, traveling exh. organized by the Smithsonian Inst. for the U.S. Information Service, Washington, 1954-1955, no. 69, as by Daisy C. Miller. First venue: Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland.

1957

  • American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957, no. 67, as by Daisy C. Miller.

1981

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary Terrell H. Bell, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., 1981-1984.

1985

  • Extended loan for use by Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Trade Representative, Washington, D.C., 1985-1989.

1991

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador Stapleton Roy, U.S. Embassy residence, Beijing, China, 1991-1995.

1997

  • Extended loan for use by Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Washington, D.C., 1997-2001.

2006

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary Michael Chertoff, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C., 2006-2008.

Bibliography

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 140, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 285, 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: 555-556, repro. 555.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 414, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20187989

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