The Independent Voter

1849 or after

American 19th Century

Associated Names
American 19th Century

Artist

The image shows a street scene with an urban setting. The composition includes buildings, a statue on a pedestal, signs like "City Hotel" and "Hard Ware," a group of men with a horse, a water pump, two dogs, people on a sidewalk and hotel balcony, additional figures, a worker with stacked bricks. The color palette features warm tones like orange, brown, and green. Brushstrokes are precise and detailed, creating a realistic depiction of the scene.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from New York State. (Avis and Rockwell Gardiner, Stamford, Connecticut), by whom sold in 1962 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, 1997.

Bibliography

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 405, repro.

  • 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: 501-504, color repro. 502.

Inscriptions

on buildings, left to right: TEL.; CITY HOTEL.; DRUGS, / PAINTS / & OIL.; HARD WARE.

Wikidata ID

Q20187935