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Catalog Level: item
Type: painting
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Classification
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paintings
American
art
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Titles or Names
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Text: Girl in a Pink Dress
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Creation
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Creator Description: Beardsley Limner
(American, active 1785-1805)
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Identity: Beardsley Limner
Role: painter
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Creation Date:
ca. 1790
Earliest:
1785 Latest:
1795
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Creation Place/Original Location: Massachusetts
(United States)
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Style/Period/Group/ Movement
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Indexing Terms: naive art
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Measurements
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Dimensions Description: 101.8 x 72.1
cm (40 1/8 x 28 3/8 inches)
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Type: height
Value: 72.1 Unit: cm Type:
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Materials and Techniques
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Description: oil on canvas
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Material Names:
oil
paint Role: medium
canvas
Role: support
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Subject Matter
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Indexing Terms:
portrait
human
figure
female
child
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Descriptive Note
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Text: The sitter is unknown, but is
thought to have been from Massachusetts.
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Citation: National Gallery of Art online
Page: accessed 1 July 2005
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Current Location
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Repository Name/Geographic Location:
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States)
Repository Numbers:
1953.5.24
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Ownership/ Collecting History
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Description: 18th century, recorded
as from Massachusetts. Richard C. Morrison, Fenway
Art Center, Boston; 1949 sold to Edgar William and
Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; 1953 gift to NGA
Citations: National Gallery of Art
online
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Exhibition/ Loan History
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Descriptions:
Little-Known Connecticut Artist 1790-1810, Connecticut
Historical Society, Hartford, 1957-1958.
American Primitive Paintings Exhibit, organized by
the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California,
for the de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa
Clara, 1968.
Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries, A. A. Rockefeller
Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Montclair Art Museum,
New Jersey; New Haven Colony Historical Society, Connecticut,
1972-1973.
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery
of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois,
1981-1982.
Citations: National Gallery of Art
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Revised 28 August 2006