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1854 or after

D.G. Stouter

Associated Names
D.G. Stouter

Artist, American, active 1854 or after

This painting shows a dog with a white and brown coat standing in tall green grass. The dog has large eyes, a pointed snout, and long ears. It is looking intently at a group of small birds that stand at the bottom of the painting in an opening in the grass, situated between us and the dog. There are four birds, and they have brown and white feathers, orange eyes, and short beaks. The background features a blue sky with a few clouds, and the grass around the dog and birds is painted in different shades of green, yellow, and brown.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from Pennsylvania. (Edgar Sittig, Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania), by whom sold in 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • 101 Masterpieces of American PrimitivePainting from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Federation of Arts, New York, 1961-1964, no. 62, color repro. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

1967

  • Fifty Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, 1967, no cat.

  • Art and the Decorator, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 1967, unnumbered cat.

1968

  • American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 58, repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

1978

  • The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.

Bibliography

1970

  • Haverstock, Mary Sayre. "An American Bestiary." Art in America 58 (July 1970): color repro. 47.

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: 379-381, color repro. 380.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 344, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: D.G. Stouter, / Artist

Wikidata ID

Q20188148

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