Birds

c. 1840

American 19th Century

Associated Names
American 19th Century

Artist

This painting shows multiple birds on and around a small, leafy tree. The birds are a variety of colors and sizes, including birds that look like hawks, blue jays, hummingbirds, magpies, and kestrels. They are shades of black, white, brown, gray, red, yellow, and pale blue. The birds are positioned at various heights on the small tree and on the ground below, all facing different directions. The ground is green, with small grasses and ferns, and the sky behind the tree is pale yellow.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from New York. (Harry Stone, New York), by whom sold in 1945 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1978.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1980

  • Extended loan, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1980-1985.

2010

  • American Naive Paintings from the Garbisch Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, 2010, no cat.

Bibliography

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 265, 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: 421-423, color repro. 422.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 389, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20186582

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