Still Life: Fruit, Bird, and Dwarf Pear Tree

1856

Charles V. Bond

Associated Names
Charles V. Bond

Artist, American, c. 1825 - 1866

This painting shows a bowl of red raspberries resting on a surface. The bowl is pale blue with blue details on the rim, and it is surrounded by a pile of pale peaches and pears, red plums, and green and purple grapes. In the bottom left corner there are some pale purple-and-white carrots and a small group of red berries. On the right is a tree with yellow pears and a small vase with red and white roses. On the left is a thin brown branch with a bird perched on it. The bird has a green back and a yellow chest, and it is leaning down towards the raspberries, its wings flared and its beak partially open. The surface these items rest on is dark gray and the background is a gradient of pale yellow on the left and light blue on the right.

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Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Naive Paintings, pages 22-24, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/American%20Naive%20Painting.pdf

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from Chicago. (Childs Gallery, Boston), by whom sold in 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, traveling exh. by the Int'l. Exhib. Foundation, Washington, 1985-1987, no. 11, color repro., b/w detail, 12. First venue: Museum of American Folk Art, New York.

1988

  • La Nascita di Una Nazione: Pittori americani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington 1730-1880, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna; Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca'Pesaro, Venice, 1988-1989, no. 11, repro.

Bibliography

1988

  • Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 86, 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: 22-24, color repro. 23.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 34, repro.

2010

  • Payne, Suzanne Rudnick, and Michael R. Payne. "'Very Respectfully Yours &c/ Isaac W. Nuttman'." Antiques (January/February 2010): 256, 257 nn. 10,11, fig. 8, as Possibly by Charles V. Bond or Possibly by Isaac W. Nuttman.

2011

  • Pennington, Estill Curtis. Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1902-1920. Lexington, 2011: 112.

Inscriptions

on reverse: C. V. Bond, / Chicago, / 1856.

Wikidata ID

Q20188381

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