Woman Holding a Book, c. 1835

Provenance

Recorded as from Massachusetts. (David Stockwell, Wilmington, Delaware), by whom sold in 1954 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Exhibition History

2000

Picturing Gentility: Portraits of Women in American Art, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, 2000, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 7.

2010

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

Bibliography

1963

French, Reginald F., and Agnes M. Dods. "Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 28 (October 1963): 123, no. 195 (includes their "Checklist of Paintings attributed to E. S. Field").

1992

American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 179, 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: 115, 119, repro. 118.

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