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ATTRIBUTED TO EDWIN WEYBURN GOODWIN (1800-1845)

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Auction dateClassic
19.01.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1122170
Lot 429 | ATTRIBUTED TO EDWIN WEYBURN GOODWIN (1800-1845)
ATTRIBUTED TO EDWIN WEYBURN GOODWIN (1800-1845)

PORTRAIT OF THREE CHILDREN AND A CAT

oil on canvas

39 3⁄8 x 62 ½ in.

Painted circa 1845





Provenance

Boris Mirski Art Gallery, Boston (per label)

The Downtown Gallery, New York

T. Stauffer, 1958

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York

Acquired from the above in 1991



Literature

Park Avenue Social Review (January 1939), illustrated.

New York Post (21 January 1941), illustrated.

“The Editors Attic”, The Magazine Antiques (March 1951), pp. 224-5, as ‘attributed to Edwin Weyburn Goodwin: Christmas Presents’.



Exhibited

New York, The Downtown Gallery, American Ancestors: Masterpieces by Little Known and Anonymous Artists 1720-1860, 1938, no. 15, as ‘Newburgh Family, about 1840’.

New York, The Downtown Gallery, The Painter Looks at Music, 1941, no. 21, as ‘Newburgh Family, 1845’.

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Battles and Symbols of the U.S.A., 1942, no. 41, as ‘Newburgh Family, about 1845’.

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1943.

Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1946.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Institute, American Primitive Art 1750-1950, 1951, no. 22, as ‘attributed to Edwin Weyburn Goodwin’, illustrated.

Houston, Texas, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, American Primitive Art, 1956, no. 53.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Folk, Young Faces, 1987, as ‘attributed to Edwin Weyburn Goodwin’, illustrated.

New York, Museum of Folk Art, Always in Tune: Music in America Folk Art, 1989.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, American Folk Art: Selections from the Hirschl & Adler Collections, 27 September – 2 November 1991, no. 9.

Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, on loan.
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Folk Art
Genre:Portrait
Category:Painting
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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