Provenance
Descended in the Sargent family to Martha Gertrude Farner Cork (great-granddaughter of Martha [Patty] Hills Sargent, the mother in the portrait, and granddaughter of Martha [Patty] Hills Sargent [later Mrs. Jehiel Smith], the child holding her father's hand), Waukesha, Wisconsin; given to her granddaughter, Gertrude Louise Cork Swezey, Coxsackie, New York, sometime before 17 June 1941.[1] Purchased in 1953, possibly with (Thurston Thacher, Hyde Park, New York) as agent, by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
Exhibition History
- 1954
- American Primitive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 32.
- 1955
- American Primitive Pantings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
- 1956
- American Primitive Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1956, no. 28.
- 1957
- American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957.
- 1961
- 101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Federation of Arts, New York, 1961-1964, no. 33, color repro. First venue: The Metropolitan Musuem of Art, N.Y.
- 1967
- Fifty Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, 1967, no catalogue.
- 1968
- American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 31, repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.
- 1970
- American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, organized by the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., and Mainichi News., Nihobashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1970, no catalogue.
- 1970
- The New World: 1620-1970, Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1970, no. 7.
- 1975
- The World of Franklin and Jefferson, traveling exhibition circulated by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, 6 venues (Paris, Warsaw, London, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles), 1975-1977, not in catalogue.
- 1977
- Kaleidescope of American Painting, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City Missouri 1977-1978, no. 18.
- 1978
- The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.
- 1980
- Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in America, organized by Museum of American Folk Art, NGA loans shown at The New-York Historical Society, New York, 1980-1981, 51, no. 109, color repro. (catalogue. by Sandra Brant and Elissa Cullman).
- 1981
- American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, no. 5.
- 1986
- New and Different: Domestic Interiors in Eighteenth-Century America, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1986-1987, no catalogue.
- 1988
- A Little Bestiary: Naive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, 1988, no catalogue.
- 1994
- Extended loan for use by Secretary Richard Riley, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., 1994-2000.
- 2004
- American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840, Milwaukee Art Museum; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem; Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, 2004-2005, not in catalogue.
- 2007
- Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 2007-2008, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 5-80, as The Sargent Family of Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Bibliography
- 1956
- Little, Nina Fletcher. "An Approach to Furnishing." Antiques 69-70 (July 1956): 45.
- 1959
- Bouton, Margaret. American Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number One in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 12, color repro.
- 1968
- Little, Nina Fletcher. "The Conversation Piece in Folk Art." Antiques 67 (November 1968): 746, fig. 11.
- 1969
- McClinton, Katherine Morrison. "American Furniture in Family Portraits." Apollo 89 (March 1969): 226-227.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 150, repro.
- 1971
- Bihalji-Merin, Oto. Masters of Naive Art. New York, 1971: color repro., 47.
- 1971
- Peterson, Harold L. Americans at Home. New York, 1971: color pl. 14.
- 1978
- King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 71, pl. 42.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 296, repro.
- 1980
- Mayhew, Edgar de N., and Minor Myers, Jr. A Documentary History of American Interiors from the Colonial Era to 1915. New York, 1980: color pl. 6.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 538, no. 813, color repro.
- 1989
- Gere, Charlotte. Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior. London, 1989: 139, color pl. 149.
- 1990
- Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy. At Home: The American Family 1750-1870. New York, 1990: color repro. 74.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 426, 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: 588-590, color repro. 589.
- 2007
- Lahikainen, Dean T. "A McIntire Restoration: The East Parlor in the Peirce-Nichols House, Salem, Massachusetts." Antiques (December 2007): 87, fig. 18.
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