Captain Elisha Denison, c. 1790

Provenance

Recorded as from Connecticut. Descended in the family of the sitter. (Victor Spark, New York), by whom sold in 1947 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Exhibition History

1954

American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 20.

1955

American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955 (shown only two weeks and replaced).

Bibliography

1957

Little, Nina Fletcher. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection. Boston and Toronto, 1957: 100-101.

1966

Black, Mary, and Jean Lipman. American Folk Painting. New York, 1966: 20-21.

1972

Schloss, Christine Skeeles. The Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries: Postrevolutionary Portraiture in New England, 1775-1805. Exh. cat. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Va., 1972: 36.

1981

Harlow, Thompson R. "The Life and Trials of Joseph Steward." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 46 (October 1981): 111, 117, 126, 129.

1992

American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 157, 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: 83, 86, color repro. 84.

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