Julia Tuttle Bangs
Artist
Erastus Salisbury Field
(American, 1805-1900)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1830
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 35 x 26 in. (88.9 x 66 cm)
Credit LineGift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Object number78.633.1
Not on view
DescriptionOil on canvas painting. It is a portrait of a woman sitting with her right elbow resting on the chair arm and her left hand resting in her lap. She holds a white handkerchief in her left hand. Her hair is up; she has a large white collar, gold earrings and a matching gold neckline.Label TextErastus Salisbury Field American, 1805–1900 Julia Tuttle Bangs, ca. 1830 Oil on canvas Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1830s American Oil on canvas Layers of fabric, lace, and ribbon transform the sober black robes of these two women into dramatic fashion statements. Accentuated by jewelry and carefully arranged curls, both display taste and affluence. For many rural artists, precisely rendering costume patterns and folds was more important than accurately representing the human body beneath these clothes. Though the sitters’ droopy shoulders may look clumsy to us, these paintings no doubt hung in places of prominence in their original owners’ homes. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch 78.633.1 Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2175 ProvenanceLoan from Mr. and Mrs. Garbisch to the Chrysler Museum, 1976; Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch to the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, 1978. Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. "Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Gallery," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., 1977. "Eratus Salisbury Field: 1805-1900," Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass., Feb. 5 - April 1, 1984; National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 10 - Sept. 4, 1984; Museum of American Folk Art, New York, N.Y., Nov. - Dec. 1984; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Tex., Jan. - Feb. 1985. "Democratic Designs: American Folk Paintings from the Chrysler Museum," Willoughby-Baylor House, Norfolk, VA, August 16, 2014 - April 5, 2015.Published ReferencesDennis R. Anderson, "Naive Gift Grows to Unprecedented Eighty Paintings," _Chrysler Museum at Norfolk Bulletin_ 5, no. 4 (April 1976): 2, 3. Museum staff, "Museum Portraits included in National Catalog," _Chrysler Museum Bulletin_ 7, no. 9 (September 1978): n.p. Mary Black, _Erastus Salisbury Field: 1805-1900_, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass., 1984, 95, fig. 59, cat. no. 8. Museum staff, "Museum Paintings on National Tour," _Chrysler Museum Bulletin_ 14, no. 8 (August 1984): n.p.
