Innocence, c. 1830

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 68.9 x 56.5 cm (27 1/8 x 22 1/4 in.)

framed: 82.1 x 69.4 x 3.5 cm (32 5/16 x 27 5/16 x 1 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.62.30

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Recorded as from New York City. Private collection, Connecticut. (Candler, Canaan, Connecticut);[1] sold 1946 to (Downtown Gallery, New York); sold 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; bequest 1980 to NGA.

[1] This information is found in the Downtown Gallery papers (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution). Efforts to determine Candler's first name have not been successful.

Associated Names

Candler
Downtown Gallery
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1938: Title unknown, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1938, no cat. known. (listed in the Downtown Gallery Papers [AAA]).

1943: American Folk Art, Marshall Field and Company, Chicago, 1943, no cat. known. (listed in the Downtown Gallery papers [AAA]).

1954: American Primitive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 64.

1968: American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 47, repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

1970: American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 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.

2016: Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America, American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2016-2017.

Bibliography

1976: Schorsch, Anita. Mournign Becomes America: Mourning Art in the New Nation. Exh. cat. William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1976: 112, color pl. 20, color repro. on cover of paperback edition.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 406, 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: 507-509, color repro. 508.