Past Exhibition

American Naïve Watercolors and Prints

This painting depicts a landscape view from an elevated point, showing a village of white buildings with red and white roofs atop rolling green hills. The buildings are spread throughout the painting, with one white tower with a cross to the right of center. Thin brown paths and white fences crisscross the green land between the houses. The sky is overcast with light gray and hints of blue.
American 19th Century, Twenty-two Houses and a Church, mid 19th century, water-based medium on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1958.9.13

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    West Building, Ground Floor, Graphics Galleries GS-6, GS-7, GS-8, GS-9 (3,500 sq. ft.)
This painting depicts a landscape view from an elevated point, showing a village of white buildings with red and white roofs atop rolling green hills. The buildings are spread throughout the painting, with one white tower with a cross to the right of center. Thin brown paths and white fences crisscross the green land between the houses. The sky is overcast with light gray and hints of blue.
American 19th Century, Twenty-two Houses and a Church, mid 19th century, water-based medium on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1958.9.13

Overview: 49 examples of Pennsylvania German fraktur, Shaker calligraphy, mourning pictures, and pastel portraits were shown from the gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch.

Organization: The exhibition was coordinated by Deborah Chotner. This was one of a group of small exhibitions of graphics, Nineteenth-Century America on Paper: Four Exhibitions, opening at the same time.

Attendance: 71,339

Brochure: American Naive Watercolors and Drawings, by Deborah Chotner. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1984.

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