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Leila T. Bauman

Geese in Flight, 1850 or later

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 51.6 x 66.8 cm (20 5/16 x 26 5/16 in.)

framed: 62.2 x 77.4 x 3.8 cm (24 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1958.9.1

Artists / Makers

Leila T. Bauman (artist) American, active 1850 or after

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Inscription

on boat: YORK

Provenance

Recorded as from Union County, New Jersey. George Hasney, New Jersey;[1] sold in 1951 to (Mrs. Frank Bien, Morristown, New Jersey), by whom sold in 1951 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1958.

[1] Affidavit of ownership, signed by Hasney and dated 16 March 1951, in NGA curatorial file.

Associated Names

Bien, Frank, Mrs.
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Hasney, George
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1954: American Primitive Paintings, traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Inst. for the U.S. Information Service, Washington, 1954-1955, no. 79. 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. 97.

1968: American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exhibition by Amer. Fed. of Arts, New York, 1968-1970, no. 99. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

1970: American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Century: Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, organized by the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., and Mainichi News., Nihobashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1970, no cat.

1972: American Primitive Painting, South Texas Artmobile, Corpus Christi, traveling exhibition by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1972-1973, no cat.

1978: The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.

1981: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, no. 27, color repro. 23 (cat. by Ronald McKnight Melvin).

1987: American Women Artists 1830-1930, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, organized by the International Exhibition Foundation, 1987, no. 63, color repro.

1993: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 1993-1994.

1993: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, 1993.

1994: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, 1994.

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 14, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 24, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 25, 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: 10-13, color repro. 11.