Lot 101: * JAMES GOODWYN CLONNEY 1812-1867

SIGNED AND DATED (MAKER'S MARKS)
signed Clonney and dated 1845, l.r.

14 by 17 in. (35.6 by 43.2 cm)

oil on canvas

New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, 1776 to 1976 Two Hundred Years of Art in America: A Bicentenial Exhibition, June-August 1976
New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, American Genre Art: The 19th Century 1830-1880, October-November 1979
New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, September-October 1983
Paris, France, American Embassy, An Exhibition of American Paintings at the American Embassy, Paris, 1984-1991 (on extended loan to the public exhibition hall of the American Embassy in Paris, France, and afterwards to the residence of the ambassador of the United States of America to France, the Art in Embassies Program, Department of State, Washington, D.C.)

Lucretia H. Giese, "James Goodwyn Clonney (1812-1867): American Genre Painter," American Art Journal, vol. XI, no. 4, October 1979, p. 11 (as Black Boy Asleep, 1835)

PROPERTY FROM THE ANDREW CRISPO COLLECTION

Private Collection, New York
Victor Spark, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above