The Village Blacksmith

Artist John George Brown American, born Great Britain, 1831–1913

Datecirca 1900

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Frame: 32 1/2 x 37 3/8 x 3 in. (82.5 x 94.9 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.6

On View

Not on view

Provenance**Created United States, ca. 1900; collection of the artist; bequeathed to wife, 1913; [artist’s estate sale, American Art Galleries, New York, February 10, 1914, no. 119]; M. C. Findlay; [John Levy Galleries, New York] [1], sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] Levy Galleries inventory no. 26442.
Published ReferencesAmerican Art News [vol.?] (February 14, 1914), noted 7.

“Catalogue of the Finished Pictures and Studies Left by the Well-Known Artist, the Late J. G. Brown, N.A.,” (auction catalogue) (New York: American Art Galleries, 1914), no. 119.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 6, illus. (b-w) .

Paul L. Poirot, "To Abolish Sweatshops," We the People of North Carolina 21 (September 1963), 10-11, illus. (b-w) 10.

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966, no. 7, illus. (b-w).

Lois Dinnerstein, "The Iron Worker and King Solomon: Some Images of Labor in American Art," Arts 54 (September 1979), 112-117, illus.(b-w) fig. 5.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 257.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, National Academy of Design, "83rd Annual Exhibition," March 14-April 18, 1908, no. 288 (as The Village Blacksmith).

American Federation of Arts, "A Hundred Years Ago" (traveling exhibition), November 1958-November 1959, no. [ ].

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "The Light Aesthetic," September 1984–July 1985. Object Rights Statement

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