About the Artwork
John Sherburne
ca. 1840
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American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 27 × 22 1/4 inches (68.6 × 56.5 cm) Framed: 30 7/8 × 25 7/8 × 2 3/4 inches (78.4 × 65.7 × 7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of the Estates of Edgar W. and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
81.833
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, verso: Painted November 17, 1810
Label, verso: Title: John Sherburne; Date: November 17, 1810. Painting found at Wilde College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Included in an Exhibition of American Primitive Paintngs in Europe. Label reads: Karl Hnat/Spediteur, Wien
Provenance
dealer, Isabel Carleton Wilde (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).Downtown Gallery(New York, New York, USA).
Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler (Garbisch, New York, USA);
1981-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 1. New York, 1991, p. 176 (ill.).
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American, John Sherburne, ca. 1840, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Estates of Edgar W. and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 81.833.
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