Baby in Blue, c. 1845

Provenance

Recorded as from New Hampshire. Purchased in 1949 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.

Exhibition History

1951

American Primitive Art, 1750-1950, Milwaukee Art Institute, 1951, no. 2, as by an unkown Fall River artist.

1968

American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Columbus, Georgia, 1968-1969, no. 16.

1976

American Cat-alogue: The Cat in American Folk Art, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, 1976, no. 80 (catalogue by Bruce Johnson).

1988

A Little Bestiary: Naive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, 1988, no catalogue.

2010

American Naive Paintings from the Garbisch Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, 2010, no catalogue.

2016

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

Bibliography

1980

American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 265, repro.

1992

American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 266, 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: 297-299, color repro. 298.

2013

Schorsch, David A. "Pictures within Pictures: Photographs of American Folk Paintings 1840-1880." Antiques (September/October 2013): 102, fig. 2, 106.

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