The Exhumation, c. 1890

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 61 x 83.8 cm (24 x 33 in.)

framed: 72.4 x 95.9 x 5 cm (28 1/2 x 37 3/4 x 1 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1953.5.27

Artists / Makers

Linton Park (artist) American, 1826 - 1906

Image Use

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Inscription

on grave marker in old man's hand: J NO[B or R]IS / CO H. / 45 Pa / Vols; on marker by his feet: UNKNOWN / US

Provenance

The artist's brother, James Park; his daughter, Jennie Park, Indiana, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Norman Park (wife of Jennie Park's half-brother), Indiana, Pennsylvania; her daughter, Mrs. Enzer (Mary Park) Lewis, Indiana, Pennsylvania;[1] sold to (Mollard's Antique Shop, Westfield, New York); sold 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift 1953 to NGA.

[1] Kathryn M. Royer, "Linton Park," M.A. Thesis, Pennsylvania State College, 1940: 20, writes, "...the picture is still in the possession of a member of the Park family, Miss Jennie Park, and hangs in the home of Mrs. Norman Park in Indiana." A descendant of the artist, Irene Park Barbor, assisted Royer with her research. In a letter of 29 Nov. 1972 (in NGA curatorial files), Barbor explains, "Jennie Park had been given the picture and she left it with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Norman Park of Chestnut Street, Indiana, Pa. My sister and I saw this picture hanging in her living room in the 1930's. Jennie never reclaimed the picture and it remained in the Park home. After Mrs. Norman Park died, her daughter Mrs. E.E. Lewis (Mary Park) acquired the picture by inheritance."

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis, Enzer, Mrs.
Mollard, Bessie, Mrs.
Park, James
Park, Jennie E.
Park, Leon Norman, Mrs.

Exhibition History

1968: The American Primitive Paintings Exhibit, organized by the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, for de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, 1968, as Grave of A. Norris.

1973: American Primitive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Holland Union, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1973, exhibition guide (copy not located).

1978: The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.

1993: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 1993-1994.

1993: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, 1993.

1994: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, 1994.

1994: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge, 1994-1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Boise Art Museum, Idaho, 1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, 1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida, 1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), St. John's Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1995-1996.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainseville, 1996-1997.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1996.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, 1996.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1996.

1997: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1997.

1998: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1998.

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 86, repro., as Dying Tonight on the Old Camp Ground.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 204, repro.

1981: Smith, Jean. "Linton Park, Pennsylvania Paitner." Antiques 120 (November 1981): 1208-1209.

1982: Griffith, J. Neal. Linton Park: American Primitive. Indiana, Pennsylvania, 1982: 103-104.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 254, 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: 269-270, repro. 269.

1996: American Naive Paintings: From the National Gallery of Art. American Art Review, Vol. VIII, No. 6, 1996, no. 131, repro.