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American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
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- Sale 6332
Live
| Philadelphia
Apr 29 | 10:00 AM EDT
Live
| Philadelphia
Sale 6332
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$3,000 – $5,000
Provenance:
Found in Amherst, Massachusetts,
American Folk Art Gallery, New York,
Collection of Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr.,
Property from a Private Pennsylvania Collection.
Exhibition History and Literature:
This painting was included in the exhibition, Erastus Salisbury Field: 1805-1900, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, February 5-April 1, 1984; National Museum American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 10 - September 4, 1984; Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York, November -December 1984; and the Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, January-February, 1985. Mary Black wrote the accompanying exhibition catalog of the same name. The Plague of Darkness is catalog no. 85. and is illustrated page 49, fig. 46.
Note:
Detailed in the Book of Exodus, the plague of darkness was the ninth of ten plagues sent as a judgment by God against Egypt for not releasing the Israelites from slavery. Between 1865 and 1880 the deeply religious and passionately anti-slavery Field depicted The Plagues of Egypt in a series of large canvases intended for display in the North Congregational Church of North Amherst, Massachusetts.
wax lined; replaced stretcher; replaced frame; generally fluoresces green; with some scattered retouching throughout, but largely to sky and some to buildings; some occasional surface scuffs, and a small area of loss to surface along left-facing edge; possible repaired tear mid canvas, above paintings
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