Portrait of an Old Man, 1848

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 66 x 55.4 cm (26 x 21 13/16 in.)

framed: 87.3 x 76.2 x 5.3 cm (34 3/8 x 30 x 2 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1955.11.14

Artists / Makers

J.C. Robinson (artist) American, active 1848

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Inscription

lower center, on cuff: Painted Dec. 9 / 18 48; center left: Ag[e]. 76; on reverse (no longer visible, photograph in object file [1955.11.14] in NGA curatorial records): J.C. Robinson

Provenance

Recorded as from Pennsylvania. Purchased in 1950 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1955.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1954: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 94.

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.

Bibliography

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

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 216, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 272, 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: 321, repro. 322.