The Prodigal Son Reclaimed, c. 1815

Inscription

across bottom: the prodigal Son Reclaimed father I have Sinned against heaven And in thy Sight / And am no more worthy to be called thy Son luke--15--21.-

Exhibition History

1974

The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1974, no. 103, color repro. (cat. by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester).

1998

Mary Ann Willson: Artist Maid, American Folk Art Museum, New York, 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1966

101 Primitive Watercolors and Pastels, from the Collection of Edgar William Garbisch and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966: 39.

1968

Hollander, Stacy. "Mary Ann Willson, Artist Maid." Folk Art: Magazine of the Museum of American Folk Art vol. 23, no. 2 (1998): repro. 22.

1999

Mittler, Gene A., and Rosalind Ragans. Exploring Art. New York, 1999: 9, fig. 1-9.

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