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Lambert Sachs

The Herbert Children, 1857

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 63.3 x 80.3 cm (24 15/16 x 31 5/8 in.)

framed: 76.2 x 93.3 x 5.3 cm (30 x 36 3/4 x 2 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1955.11.2

Artists / Makers

Lambert Sachs (artist) American, 1818 - 1903

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Inscription

lower left: L. Sachs / 1857

Provenance

Descended in the Herbert family, New Jersey. (Edith Gregor Halpert, Downtown Gallery, New York, 1945), by whom sold in 1946 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1955.

Associated Names

Downtown Gallery
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert family

Exhibition History

1945: American Art 1945, Downtown Gallery, New York, 1945, no. 31, as The Herbert Children of Toms River.

1954: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 105.

1963: Toys and Amusements, Museum of Early American Folk Arts (now Museum of American Folk Art), New York, 1963-1964, no cat.

1968: The American Primitive Paintings Exhibit, organized by the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, for de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, 1968.

1975: American Folk Art: Tour in the Arkansas Artmobile Bicentennial Exhibition, traveling exhibition organized by the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1975-1976, no cat.

1986: Toys in the Life of the Early American Child, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, 1986-1987, no cat.

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 94, repro.

1970: Mendelowitz, Daniel M. A History of American Art. 2nd ed. New York, 1970: 285-286.

1976: Schorsch, Anita. Mourning Becomes America: Mourning Art in the New Nation. Exh. cat. William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1976: color pl. 5.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 217, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 330, 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: 332, color repro. 333.

1996: Bodenbach, Hans Joachim. "Der Maler (und Fotograf) Lambert Sachs aus Mannheim (1818-1903) un seine Beziehungen zu Offenburg." Die Ortenau 1996:578