Storm-Tossed Frigate, mid 19th century

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 54.4 x 77.2 cm (21 7/16 x 30 3/8 in.)

framed: 66 x 87.6 x 5.7 cm (26 x 34 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1969.11.1

Artists / Makers

Thomas Chambers (artist) American, 1808 - 1866 or after

Image Use

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Provenance

Recorded as from New York. Private collection, Boston; sold by October 1965 to (Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York), by whom sold in 1965 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1969.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

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. 72, 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, by the the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., and Mainichi News., Mihobashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1970, no cat.

1975: Seascape and the American Imagination, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1975, 40, 43, 117 (cat. by Roger B. Stein).

1978: The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.

1985: Night Lights: 19th and 20th Century American Nocturne Paintings, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1985, 4, 19.

1986: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Robie Marcus Hooker Palmer, U.S. Embassy residence, Budapest, Hungary, 1986-1990.

1990: Extended loan for use by Ambassador James R. Woolsey, U.S. Representative to the Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, ambassadorial residence, Vienna, Austria, 1990-1993.

1999: Extended loan for use by Secretary William Richardson, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C., 1999-2001.

2001: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Robert Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative, Washington, D.C., 2001-2005.

2008: Thomas Chambers, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls; American Folk Art Museum, New York; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 2008-2010, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 2-3.

2019: The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers; James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, 2019, no. 17, repro.

Bibliography

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 128, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 138, 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: 56-58, repro. 58.