Melons and Grapes
mid 19th century
Artist, American, active mid 19th century
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (including painted frame): 51.5 x 60.7 cm (20 1/4 x 23 7/8 in.)
framed: 51.4 x 60.6 x 2.5 cm (20 1/4 x 23 7/8 x 1 in.) -
Accession
1957.11.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from New York. (Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York, by 1946),[1] by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1957.
[1] When the painting was included in the Harry Shaw Newman Gallery's Exhibition of American Primitives.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1946
Exhibition of American Primitives, Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York, 1946, In Panorama 1 (April 1946): 76.
1957
American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957, no. 57.
1981
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1982, no. 43, (cat. by Ronald McKnight Melvin).
1985
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, traveling exhibition circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1985-1987, no. 22, color repro.
1988
La Nascita di Una Nazione: Pittori americani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington 1730-1880, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna; Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca'Pesaro, Venice, 1988-1989, no. 22, repro.
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 40, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 130, 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: 68-69, color repro. 69.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 141, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20185157