Study of Apples from Nature, 1863

Not on View

Medium

oil on board

Dimensions

overall: 18.42 × 26.35 cm (7 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)

framed: 29.85 × 36.51 × 5.08 cm (11 3/4 × 14 3/8 × 2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

Accession Number

2018.44.15

Artists / Makers

William Rickarby Miller (painter) American, born England, 1818 - 1893

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: W. R. Miller / 1863

Provenance

William H. Gerdts [1929-2020], New York, by at least 1965;[1] gift 2018 to NGA.

[1] Gerdts lent the painting to a circa 1965 exhibition at the American Federation of the Arts in New York; per documentation provided by Abigail Booth Gerdts, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Gerdts, William H., Dr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1965: [Still lifes of edible subjects from the collection of William H. Gerdts, on occasion of publication of cookbook by William and Lois Katzenbach], Board Room, American Federation of the Arts, New York, c. 1965, no catalogue, label no. 14.

1966: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painting from the Collections of Henry M. Fuller and William H. Gerdts, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, 1966, no. 40.

1993: The Apple of America: The Apple in 19th Century American Art, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1993.

1998: For Beauty and For Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life, Mead Art Museum, Amherst; Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1998, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1971: Gerdts, William H., and Russell Burke. American Still-Life Painting. New York, 1971: 106, fig. 7-7.