ID: 700000076 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000076	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Girl in a Pink Dress (painting (visual work); Beardsley Limner (American, active 1785-1805); ca. 1790; National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States); 1953.5.24)

Note: The sitter is unknown, but is thought to have been from Massachusetts.

Titles:

Girl in a Pink Dress (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

American art

Creation Date: ca. 1790

Creator Display:

Beardsley Limner (American, active 1785-1805) [preferred,VP]

painter Beardsley Limner (American painter, active 1785-1805) [500115829]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Massachusetts [7007517] United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States) [500115983] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1953.5.24

Credit Line: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Address Note: Not on View

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 101.8 x 72.1 cm (40 1/8 x 28 3/8 inches)

Events:

exhibition: Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries, held 1972-1973 Colonial Williamsburg [7015762] (Williamsburg (inhabited place), Williamsburg Indep. City (independent city), Virginia (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet))

exhibition: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, held 1981-1982 Evanston [7014153] (Cook county (county), Illinois (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet))

exhibition: American Primitive Paintings Exhibit, held 1968 Santa Clara [7014473] (Santa Clara county (county), California (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet))

exhibition: Little-Known Connecticut Artist 1790-1810, held 1957-1958 Hartford [1002461] (Connecticut (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet))

Cultures:

American (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	naive art [300263555] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in the visual arts>, art genres)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	girl [300247581]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

Provenance: 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 Exhibition History: 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.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Girl in a Pink Dress	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-) accessed 1 July 2005