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Artist(s): George de Forest Brush (Shelbyville, TN, Sep 28, 1855 - Apr 24, 1941, Hanover, NH)
Title: Mother and Child
Date: 1892
Dimensions: 45 1/8 in. x 32 1/8 in. (114.62 cm x 81.6 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Gift of anonymous donor, 1930.377
Location: On view in Gallery 205

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Exhibitions: Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection
Exhibitions: Currents/Crosscurrents
Themes: Gender

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, National Exposition Commission, 5/1/1893 - 10/30/1893
Commemorative Exhibition by Members of the National Academy of Design 1825-1925, National Academy of Design Museum, 10/17/1925 - 1/3/1926
Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by George de Forest Brush, N.A., Grand Central Art Galleries, 1/7/1930 - 1/18/1930
A Loan Exhibition of 19th Century Paintings from the Addison Gallery of American, Whitney Museum of American Art, 3/28/1933 - 4/27/1933
Survey of American Painting, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, 10/24/1940 - 12/15/1940
75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture By 75 Artists Associated w, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3/15/1951 - 4/29/1951
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Face of America: The History of Portraiture in the United States, Brooklyn Museum, 11/13/1957 - 1/26/1958
George de Forest Brush, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery (Thorne Art Gallery), Keene State College, 7/11/1971 - 9/13/1971
American Art and the Quest for Unity, 1876-1893, Detroit Institute of Arts, 8/22/1983 - 10/30/1983
A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin, University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, 3/2/1985 - 10/30/1985
Boys and Girls, Men and Women, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/1990 - 6/10/1990
American Masterworks, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/5/1990 - 12/16/1990
Faces of the Addison: Portraits from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/23/1994 - 7/31/1994
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/5/1995 - 12/17/1995
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Framework: American Pictures and Frames, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/16/1999 - 4/4/1999
Sculpture in Context, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/17/1999 - 7/31/1999
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/22/2000 - 3/26/2000
Identity and Intention: Two Centuries of American Portraiture, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/4/2001 - 12/30/2001
75 Years of Giving, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/11/2006 - 7/31/2006
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, American Federation of Arts, 9/9/2006 - 9/7/2009
80 @ 80 , Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/15/2011 - 12/31/2011
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/27/2013 - 7/31/2013
Natural Selections, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/14/2013 - 3/16/2014
[Permanent Collection 201-5], Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/2014 - 7/31/2014
In Tandem: Inspirations and Collaborations, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/12/2015 - 1/3/2016
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/2017 - 7/30/2017
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2017 - 7/31/2018
Currents/Crosscurrents: American Art, 1850–1950, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 3/7/2021
Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/23/2022 - 7/31/2022

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