The Gage Family, 1846

Not on View

Medium

oil on bed ticking

Dimensions

overall: 137 x 137.4 cm (53 15/16 x 54 1/8 in.)

framed: 159.4 x 159.4 cm (62 3/4 x 62 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.61.2

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (painter)

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Provenance

Recorded as from Connecticut. Descended in the Gage family. Owned by Julius Fisher Gage of Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1901.[1] (Henry Coger, Ashley Falls, Massachusetts), by whom sold in 1972 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

[1] In a 1901 note (now in NGA curatorial files), Julius Fisher Gage, the older boy in the painting, dates the work to 1846 and identifies the sitters by name.

Associated Names

Coger, Henry
Gage, Julius Fischer
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1985: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, traveling exh. by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1985-1987, no. 19, color repro. First venue: Museum of American Folk Art, New York.

1988: La Nascita di Una Nazione: Pittori americani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington 1730-1880, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna; Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca'Pesaro, Venice, 1988-1989, no. 19, repro.

Bibliography

1991: Antiques 139 (January 1991): 78.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 403, 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: 487-489, color repro. 488.