The National Gallery's painting Fruit and Baltimore Oriole (1980.62.47) was inscribed on the reverse Painted by Wagguno, 1858, but the inscription is no longer visible. It is recorded on the accession sheet of the donors (E. W. and B. C. Garbisch), but no photographs are known. No information on the artist has been discovered to date. [This is an edited version of the artist's biography published in the NGA Systematic Catalogue]
Artist Bibliography
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: 386-388.