Minstrel Banjo Player, (painting).

Minstrel Banjo Player, (painting).

Morrill, D., painter.

Minstrel Banjo Player, (painting).

23 7/8 x 19 1/8 in. (60.6 x 48.6 cm).

(Lower right:) 1860 / D MORRILL PTR. (On back:) the Benedick / 6 Washington Square / Providence signed

Folk painting depicting a male minstrel figure playing a banjo. He is dress is striped pants with suspenders. On his head he wears a hat tipped to one side of his head.

Figure male -- Full length

Ethnic -- African American

Object -- Musical Instrument -- Banjo

Performing Arts -- Music -- Banjo

Performing Arts -- Music -- Minstrel

Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1942.630

Acquired from A. F. Mondschein Gallery, New York, New York 1942.

Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.

Black, Mary & Jean Lipman, "American Folk Painting," New York: C.N. Potter, 1966.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 567.

Black, Mary & Jean Lipman, "American Folk Painting," New York: C.N. Potter, 1966.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, fig. 340.

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