An Aztec Sculptor, 1887

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 31.8 x 58.9 cm (12 1/2 x 23 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Ann and Tom Barwick Family Collection

Accession Number

2005.107.1

Artists / Makers

George de Forest Brush (painter) American, 1854 or 1855 - 1941

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in red: GEO D[E?] F BRUSH / 1887

Provenance

Probably purchased 1887 from the artist by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; (his sale, Chickering Hall, New York, 14-18 February 1899, 4th day, no. 315); E.N. Lawrence.[1] Mrs. John Burling Lawrence, at least in 1933.[2] Ann and Thomas Barwick, Seattle; gift (partial and promised) 2005 to NGA; gift completed 2019.

[1] According to an annotated copy of the 1899 sale catalogue in the Knoedler Library Microfiche (American Sales, 0248).

[2] Mrs. Lawrence lent the painting to a 1933 Brush exhibition at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Barwick, Thomas W.
Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Lawrence, E. N.
Lawrence, John Burling Mrs.

Exhibition History

1887: 9th Annual Exhibition, Society of American Artists, New York, 1887, no. 19.

1888: Annual Exhibition of American Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, 1888, no. 132.

1908: Exhibition of Pictures by American Painters, Union League Club, New York, 1908, no. 2, as Aztec Sculptor.

1930: Thirty Paintings by Thirty Artists. Eighteenth Annual Exhibition, Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1930, no. 3.

1933: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by George de Forest Brush, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1933, no. 38.

2008: George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, 2008-2009, no. 11, repro.

2016: American Art from a Pacific Northwest Collection, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, 2016, no catalogue.