Muster Day, 1843 or after

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 55.9 x 83.9 cm (22 x 33 1/16 in.)

framed: 68.3 x 97.2 x 8.6 cm (26 7/8 x 38 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.62.32

Artists / Makers

Charles Henry Granger (painter) American, 1812 - 1893

Image Use

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Inscription

on sign at lower left: Bear O! Pi / Aiggs

Provenance

Recorded as from New Hampshire. (Robert Schuyler Tompkins, Montague, Massachusetts), by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Tompkins, Robert Schuyler
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1985: Extended loan for use by Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Trade Representative, Washington, D.C., 1985-1988.

1988: The Art of Charles Henry Granger (1812-1893), York Institute Museum, Saco, Maine, 1988, no cat.

1990: Extended loan for use by Secretary Jack Kemp, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

1997: Loan for display with permanent collection, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, 1997.

2008: Extended loan for use by Secretary Ed Schafer, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 2008.

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

Bibliography

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 189, 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: 153-156, color repro. 155.