National Gallery of Art · Painting
An Arapahoe Boy
George de Forest Brush
- Date
- c. 1882
- Medium
- oil on canvas (grisaille)
- Dimensions
- unframed: 22.9 x 18.4 cm (9 x 7 1/4 in.) framed: 33 x 28.3 x 1.9 cm (13 x 11 1/8 x 3/4 in.)
- Classification
- Painting
- Accession number
- 2007.138.1
- Credit line
- Gift of Jane Wyeth, in memory of her parents, Gertrude Ketover Gleklen and Leo Gleklen
- Time span
- 1876 to 1900
- Department
- CAB
Subjects and terms
- painted surface
- American
- Realist
- grisaille
- Arapaho
- North American Indian
- portrait
Provenance
Gift from the artist to Erminnie Adelle Platt Smith [1836-1886].[1] Private Collection, Northern California. (sale, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 12 March 1987, no. 3188). (Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco);[2] purchased 1987 by Mrs. Andrew Wyeth; given as gift to Nicholas Wyeth; given as gift to his wife Jane Wyeth, New York;[2] gift 2007 to NGA. [1] An inscription lower right reads To Mrs. Ermine Smith / from her friend / Geo. De F. Brush. [2] The painting was included in an exhibition at Montgomery Gallery from 13 October – 27 November 1981 in which all the works were for sale ( _Visions of the Last Frontier_, no. 23, copy of catalogue entry in NGA curatorial file). [2] Provenance provided by Jane Wyeth. An undated, handwritten label pasted on a square of Christmas-themed wrapping paper, which was attached the backboard, reads “For Nickie / with love / Mommy & Daddy” (NGA curatorial files).
Inscription
lower left: An Arapahoe Boy; lower right: To Mrs. Ermine[sic] Smith / from her friend / Geo. de F. Brush
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