Inscription
lower right, on rock: A.A. Lamb.; formerly on reverse (photograph in object file [1955.11.10] in NGA curatorial records): EXHIBI[T] / [A]ND MEC / []
Provenance
Recorded as from Pennsylvania. Probably (Avis and Rockwell Gardner, Stamford, Connecticut),[1] by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1955.
[1] A dealer's note attached to an old snapshot of the painting (in NGA curatorial files) is annotated "Gardiner 6/26/49." Avis and Rockwell Gardiner is the only dealership by this name listed in Antiques issues of this period.
Exhibition History
- 1954
- American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, 1954, no. 110.
- 1962
- Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1962-1989 (temporarily returned to NGA for in-house exhibition in honor of the inauguration, December 1980 - March 1981).
- 1989
- Extended loan for use by Ambassador Walter Curley, U.S. Embassy residence, Paris, France, 1989-1994.
- 1993
- Extended loan for use by Ambassador Madeleine Albright, Representative of the U.S. to the United Nations, office at the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1993-1997.
- 1997
- Extended loan for use by Secretary Madeleine Albright, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1997-2001.
- 2001
- Extended loan for use by Secretary Ann Veneman, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 2001-2005.
- 2005
- Extended loan for use by Secretary Mike Nicholson, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C., 2005-2007.
- 2007
- Extended loan for use by Secretary James Peake, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C., 2007-2008.
Bibliography
- 1954
- Barker, Virgil. "Colloquial History Painting." Art in America 42 (May 1954): 124.
- 1964
- American Heritage 15 (April 1964): cover (color).
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 78, repro.
- 1975
- Keyes, Donald D. and Lisa Taft. "David G. Blythe's Civil War Paintings." Antiques 108 (November 1975): 996, fig. 8.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 192, repro.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 224, 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: 241-244, repro. 243.
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