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Joshua Johnson

Adelina Morton, c. 1810

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 63

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 61.5 x 51.4 cm (24 3/16 x 20 1/4 in.)

framed: 77.2 x 66.7 x 7.5 cm (30 3/8 x 26 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.61.4

Artists / Makers

Joshua Johnson (artist) American, born c. 1763, active 1796 - 1824

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Provenance

Given by the sitter's parents to Mrs. Morton's sister, Prudence Caton Thompson; to her daughter, Florence Hammersley, Baltimore; to her cousin, Mrs. Charles Albert Read [née Lucie Buckleam]. (Sale, Adam A. Weschler and Son, Washington, 19-21 May, 1972); to (Henry Coger as agent for) Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Hammersley, Florence
Morton, Robert and Anne Groves, Captain
Read, Charles Albert, Mrs.
Thompson, Prudence Caton
Weschler and Son, Adam A.

Exhibition History

1988: Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in Nineteenth-Century America, traveling exhibition organized by SITES, 1985-1988, not in cat. (shown only at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1988).

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.

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

Bibliography

1983: Perry, Mary Lynn. "Joshua Johnson: His Historical Context and His Art." M.A. thesis. George Washington University, Washington, 1983: iii, 94, 96, 126, 128-131, 152, 212-213.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 215, 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: 234-235, repro. 234.