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Erastus Salisbury Field

Man with a Tune Book: Possibly Mr. Cook, c. 1838

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 89.1 x 73.8 cm (35 1/16 x 29 1/16 in.)

framed: 97.1 x 81.6 x 4.7 cm (38 1/4 x 32 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1978.80.6

Artists / Makers

Erastus Salisbury Field (artist) American, 1805 - 1900

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Inscription

on tune book, left: OLD HUNDRED. L. M.; on tune book, right: EASTPORT. C. M.

Provenance

Recorded as from Massachusetts. (Thomas McCondack, West Lebanon, New Hampshire); to (Winifred Harding, Woodstock, Vermont); to Reginald French, Amherst, Massachusetts; to (Thurston Thacher, Hyde Park, New York); by whom sold in 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1978.

Associated Names

French, Reginald
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Harding, Winifred
McCondack, Thomas
Thacher, Thurston
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1962: Exhibition of Early American Art, Academy of the Arts, Talbot County Historical Society, Easton, Maryland, 1962.

1963: Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, 1963, no. 73, as Man with Song Book "Old Hundred, L.M.", (cat. by Mary C. Black).

1984: Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900, traveling exhibition, 1984-1985, 27, no. 61, fig. 29 (cat. by Mary C. Black). First venue; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts.

1993: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 1993-1994.

1993: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, 1993.

1994: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, 1994.

1994: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge, 1994-1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Boise Art Museum, Idaho, 1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, 1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida, 1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), St. John's Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1995-1996.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainseville, 1996-1997.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1996.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, 1996.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1996.

1997: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1997.

1998: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1998.

Bibliography

1963: French, Reginald F., and Agnes M. Dods. "Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 28 (October 1963): 108, no. 31, as Nathaniel Cook(?) (includes "Checklist of Paintings ... E.S. Field").

1963: Maytham, Thomas N. "Two Faces of New England Portrait Painting, Erastus Salisbury Field and Henry Darby." Musuem of Fine Arts (Boston) Bulletin 61: 36-37, fig. 7.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 161, repro., as Portrait of a Man with a Hymnal

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 181, 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: 126-129, repro. 127.