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George de Forest Brush

Mother and Child, 1902

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 96.36 × 72.39 cm (37 15/16 × 28 1/2 in.)

framed: 125.1 × 99.7 × 16.51 cm (49 1/4 × 39 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

Accession Number

2016.22.1

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

lower right: Geo De Forest Brush / 1902

Provenance

(M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[1] sold 21 February 1902 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] See M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Sales Book 8, 1900 November-1907 April, page 84.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Knoedler & Company, M.

Exhibition History

1906: Winter Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, no. 322.

1909: 104th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 31 January - 14 March 1909, no. 556.

1922: Probably De Forest Brush Exhibit, Century Club, New York, March 1922, no. 10.[1]

1930: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by George de Forest Brush, N.A., Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 7-18 January 1930, no. 6.

1963: A Century and a Half of American Painting: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, 3 April - 13 May 1963, no. 27.

1963: The Romantic Century, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 22 June - 9 September 1963.

1976: "The New Vision" American Styles of 1876-1910, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, 1976, unnumbered checklist.

1985: George de Forest Brush, 1855-1941: Master of the American Renaissance, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, 13 November 1985 - 6 July 1986, no. 43, repro.

2002: Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873–1921, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 13 July - 27 August 2002, unpublished checklist.

2004: Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004 - 7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.

2005: Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 61.

Exhibition History Notes

[1] The description of the work in the exhibition catalogue corresponds to the NGA painting. However, the lender and location of the artist's signature do not. An illustration of the NGA painting is reproduced in press coverage of the exhibition.

Bibliography

1903: Moser, James Henry. "Art Topics." Washington Post (19 April 1903): TP2.

1904: Mechlin, Leila. "A Popular Gallery of Art: The Corcoran Collection in Washington." The Booklovers Magazine 4, no. 1 (July 1904): 32-33, repro.

1905: Isham, Samuel. The History of American Painting. New York, 1905: 490, repro.

1906: "Academy of Design Exhibit Opened." The World (23 December 1906): 2.

1906: "Art Exhibitions." New York Daily Tribune (29 December 1906): 7.

1906: "Facts about the Corcoran Gallery." New York Herald (23 December 1906): Arts section, 3.

1906: Gilder, The. "Palette and Brush: The Winter Exhibition of the National Academy of Design." Town Topics (27 December 1906): 13.

1906: "Great Crowd at Academy Art Show." New York Herald (22 December 1906): 10.

1906: "The Academy's Exhibition." New York Evening Post (22 December 1906): 2.

1906: "The Winter Academy." Evening Post (28 December 1906): 7.

1906: "The Winter Academy." The New York Times (30 December 1906): 18.

1906: "Winter Academy Exhibition." American Art News 5, no. 10 (22 December 1906): 4.

1907: "A National Centre for Art." New York Herald (6 October 1907): Literary and Art Section, 3, repro.

1907: Arensberg, Walter C. "The National Academy of Design." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 10, no. 47 (February 1907): 336.

1907: Fitzgerald, Riter. "National Gallery: Smithsonian Institute Pictures." Evening Item (26 October 1907): 5.

1907: P., D. C. "The National Academy of Design." Collector and Art Critic (January 1907): 99-100, repro.

1908: Smith, Minna C. "George de Forest Brush." International Studio 34, no. 134 (April 1908): L, repro.

1909: "Art Works on View: Corcoran Gallery Reopens Two Weeks Ahead of Time." The Washington Post (16 September 1909): 11.

1910: Art and Progress 1, no. 5 (March 1910): frontispiece, repro.

1912: Henderson, Helen W. The Art Treasures of Washington. Boston, 1912: 142, 144, repro.

1914: Tindall, William. Standard History of the City of Washington from a Study of the Original Sources. Knoxville, 1914: 485.

1920: Corcoran Gallery of Art. The Corcoran Gallery of Art Catalogue of Paintings. Washington, 1920: 21, 23, repro.

1922: Cortissoz, Royal. "His Art at Full Length for the First Time." New York Tribune (12 March 1922): 4:8, repro.

1926: Drake, Alice Hutchins. "Christmas Pilgrimage May Be Made By Washington Art Lovers." The Sunday Star (19 December 1926): section 5:3, repro.

1927: Isham, Samuel. The History of American Painting. New Edition. New York, 1927: 490, repro.

1936: Mechlin, Leila. "Rich Art in Child: George de Forest Brush Won His Place Among Successful Painters With Home Beauty and Indian Love." Evening Star (5 September 1936): B-3, repro.

1939: Corcoran Gallery of Art. lllustrated Handbook of Paintings, Sculpture and other Art Objects. Washington, 1939: 31, repro.

1941: "George de Forest Brush's Death Recalls Fine Works." Washington Star (4 May 1941): F:6, repro.

1973: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 21, repro.

1989: Lublin, Mary Ann. "The Religion of maternity: The mother-and-child paintings of George de Forest Brush." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University (1989): 57-58, 61, 67, 129, 179, 180, 191, 203, 209, 221, 226, 264-264, 335, repro.

2000: Cash, Sarah, with Terrie Sultan. American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. New York, 2000: 131, repro.

2002: Lee, Elizabeth Lightfoot. "White Fantasies: Dirt, Desire, and Art in Late Nineteenth-Century America." Ph.D. diss., Indiana University (April 2002): 104, 242, repro.

2008: Anderson, Nancy. K. George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum. Washington, D.C., 2008: 210, repro.

2011: Napolitano, Laura Groves. "George de Forest Brush, Mother and Child." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 186-187, repro.